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All humans, really? Most maybe, but hardly all.


I think we need to be taught how to resist the seeds within us that cause those things.


Yes, I claim that almost all humans partition humans into completely imaginary classes. I'm going to define a bigot as somebody who makes such partitions. Note immediately that there exists a partition of bigots from non-bigots iff non-bigots exist. Note also that, simply by being able to recognize the above statement as true, both of us (and any other readers) are bigots. It follows that there must only be finitely many non-bigots at most; almost all humans are bigoted.


Sounds like you've rediscovered original sin, renamed it bigotry and hypothesized the existence of a small number of non-bigots who, perhaps, we ought to refer to as saints.

Also, there's plenty of Christian existentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_existentialism


Everyone is someone else's bigot.




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