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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by BobbyJo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:16AM (#28457331)
Throwing your average Joe on screen garners much fewer eyeballs and therefore isn't profitable.

As some who had been lucky enough to live many years in both rural Florida and urban California, I can tell you beyond a doubt people are mostly (99%) reasonable, and mostly the same, they are just acting on different priorities, beliefs, and data :)

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by weswpg on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:51PM (#28497225)
> I can tell you beyond a doubt people are mostly (99%) reasonable

And yet, actual fascist governments have come to power even in nominally democratic countries.

People might only be "reasonable" when left to their own devices but there could always come a day when propaganda, sectarianism and social turmoil gets so out of hand that people don't see so reasonable anymore.

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