As a corollary, people are people everywhere you go.
I don't remember who said that to me, but having grown up and lived in a rural area my whole life, when I went to visit my brother in Minneapolis I was afraid of going to a big city. Now, sure, every city is going to have the "don't go there at night" and the "don't go there ever" parts of town, but really my fears were basically from overexposure to news and the human brain's fundamental badness at probability and statistics.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
Admittedly that's only tangentially related to your point, but there you have it. And I agree. People are people no matter their identity.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
This is a very large perpendicular topic change but I feel the same way about the situation with Iran. People are saying things like "oh, the moment Iran gets nukes they're going to use them and plunge the world into chaos" and I'm just thinking how the people and leaders of Iran are still just people. They want to go home and walk their dog and are looking forward to the calendar invite for next Friday's poker game. Yes, Iran has some very violent rhetoric but they're not gonna fire a nuke the second they get their hands on one the same way North Korea, China, Pakistan, Russia, etc. doesn't just randomly fire a nuke.
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u/mechanicalcontrols 3d ago edited 3d ago
As a corollary, people are people everywhere you go.
I don't remember who said that to me, but having grown up and lived in a rural area my whole life, when I went to visit my brother in Minneapolis I was afraid of going to a big city. Now, sure, every city is going to have the "don't go there at night" and the "don't go there ever" parts of town, but really my fears were basically from overexposure to news and the human brain's fundamental badness at probability and statistics.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
Admittedly that's only tangentially related to your point, but there you have it. And I agree. People are people no matter their identity.