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Old 11-02-2017, 09:51 AM   #14
vicky_molokh
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Default Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.

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Originally Posted by Stormcrow View Post
I wonder how long a society could keep up this belief? After a very short time it should become quite clear to everyone that each reality is just another place to go, and the people who live there are just foreigners. In theory, Infinity and Centrum should have the same sort of relations as, say, the US and Russia: ideologically far apart, plenty of political, economic, and military tension, but there is no serious thought that the people of the other country aren't actually human beings.

I could see the "not real people" argument lingering around the echoes and close parallels, but not otherwise.
People seem to treat treat distant foreigners as 'not real people' in all the ways that matter quite easily.
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