02-13-2018, 02:59 PM | #31 |
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Re: How much does Xenophilia overrides self-preservation instincts?
That example was clueless and suicidally stupid in addition to xenophilia for comedic effect.
It doesn't make you run toward someone shooting or aggressively pointing a weapon at you even if alien. An alien pointing an unidentifiable object that most of us would assume but have no direct evidence is a weapon is what may cause a xenophile to approach. Same with one shouting an incomprehensible language while gesticulating wildly with large clawed appendages. We would default to how aggressive such actions would seem in most human cultures, but a xenophile would consider other possibilities.
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A person with xenophilia, though, might have trouble with that.
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02-21-2018, 01:24 AM | #35 |
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Re: How much does Xenophilia overrides self-preservation instincts?
"99% and all stories told" is more a sign of extreme bigotry of the character and society rather than a lack of disadvantage.
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That is an instinctual response of CoH Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic, which did not wait to hear what "Group A" consists of. If "Group A" is defined as consisting of gangsters then obviously it is good idea to assume that encounters with them could be trouble. As by definition the purpose of a criminal gang is-criminality. Admittedly that can be taken to far some sentos don't allow people with tattoos on the assumption that only Yakusa wear tattoos. And no I don't know how that is supposed to keep a Yakusa from coming in if he desires.
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Re: How much does Xenophilia overrides self-preservation instincts?
I don't quite think so. It's merely assuming that other people are people, not cardboard cut outs of uniform thought and behavior. I will say that it's all to instinctive for humans to categorize others in such simplistic terms.
It's like how jarring it can be to see horrible Nazis acting kindly to kittens. Or when learning that many heroes are horrible in some ways. I don't see xenophilia as being all that related to morality or rational/irrational expectations. I mainly see it as a failure to put everyone into an us vs. them mentality that is VERY instinctive for most social animals. "They" are foreign but not alien with all the suspicion that term generally entails.
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And by the way as the entire purpose of sailors in the navy is the fact that some "group A" and the members thereof are "likely to be trouble" you are clearly being inconsistent.
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