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In psychologist J. Haidt's book, The Rightious Mind, Haidt talks about how people use reason to persue goals. These goals first requires values such as truthseeking, theory validation, etc but also includes food seeking or anything requiring problem solving as reason is the problem solving aspect of action. These values are animalistic and one big value for social creatures is group competition as it often dictated which group goes extinct. It is less of a tribal appeal and more of a person labeling outsiders as niggers as you can see by my question regarding simulation hypothesis.

Simulation hypothesis is simply an induction based on the assumption that conscious life can be simulated. If possible, then simulated worlds can themselves simulate and thus we are likely simulated as opposed to original. Somehow as you can see, my mention of programmers has made me a negro of this master race society lol. That is tribalism and it is human nature. ????

I chose to use the contrast of n vs whites but this is a contrast that has happened often. Skin colour, gender, race, political affil, religion, family, class, etc all work. Jews to nazi, crusaders, islamists, etc. Pick your tribe to research lol. Most people are tribal as such. To be otherwise, is to be abnormal and as such is a very strong blocker to reason.

Tribes contribute heavily to values, emotions, and even reasoning through group think. It's rare for the individual to resist the influence of the mob, not only in who to demonize but how to feel and what goals we ought to set reason in trying to achieve. Although we can understand logical fallacies, it is likely similar to understanding that pain as c-fiber stimulation. I don't think mere understanding can mind over matter such a core aspect of human nature. It is so core that oxytocin the bonding hormone increases tribalism. In the book Against Empathy, Paul Bloom points out the double edged nature of empathy.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio finds that emotions are the primary drives to decision making. [intentionalworkplace.com] and Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes that emotions drives action and because reason is action, emotions also drive reasoning. His research on moral dumbfounding is quite disheartening. On the flip side, many believe that heavy reasoners such as Jeremy Bentham might have suffered from autism but that's both the vast minority and a huge sacrifice. Another solution might be to somehow cultivate a tribe which values logic and honest inquiry but that's a seriously a game of manipulation.

So the problem of emotional appeals might be a symptom of something much deeper. Tribalism amplifies it. No group is safe from it. General solutions are pretty inhumane.

N vs whites? @LucemFerre