Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   Another common problem seems to be that people always need someone
> > to hate, someone to blame, someone to be accused of all the problems.

> I read somewhere that a scientific study showed that amoung American 
> social groups, there was a need for a "deviant". I forget the exact 
> experiment, but they found that no matter which way they put a bunch of 
> kids into social groups, eventually one or maybe some small number of 
> the kids would be singled out as "the deviant", and thereafter harrassed 
> and bullied. Change the social groups and the person who's the deviant 
> changes, but there still *is* a deviant.

  I'm suspecting there's something inherent in human DNA which causes this.
(Of course exceptions exist. They always exist. But they are very rare in
this case.)

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                                                          - Warp

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