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Whenever people want to criticize other people's identity-loyalty, they bring up street gangs. As if what the gangs do is especially stupid and awful, compared to what everyone else does.
Identity-loyalty and leader-loyalty are natural, and very stiuational for the most part. You're right, there's not much sense to the amount of passion triggered by politics. Most of the time, our passion is never going to make a ton of difference to anything. But it used to make a good bit of difference who was in charge of the hunting band, so we have these instincts to get fired-up.
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