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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9400607" data-attributes="member: 984">Och, this freakin' thing.  I remember being at a Firefly LARP once, and pre-session a few of the other players were making fun of Furries for being so low on the chart, like haha, what losers.  I felt like shouting "dudes, you're in a Firefly LARP, you're only like one step up on the chart! You're just confirming how much of a loser you are if you believe the chart is reality.  Why the heck are you being such asses?"But I was so shocked and incredulous at their jerkish nature, plus I was new there, so I bit my tongue and simply enjoyed the game.  Ayep.  It's an unfortunate tendency that disparaged groups tend to disparage other groups even more harshly.  In a world where your only experience is one of dominance and harming, it's easy to believe that's the only way the world does work, or even can work, and as such you need to do the same and indeed it's natural that you do the same.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />When people don't experience love and belonging given freely, all becomes one of transactional interactions and hierarchy.  (There's a great distinction between horizontal individualistic societies, and vertical individualistic societies that is well off topic here but is very fascinating and might explain a lot of sociopathic behaviour across US culture.)Also, I don't think Kirk would be an ocelot.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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