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[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's a tribal reactive feeling of "my people need to live". Remember that conservatives are more fear driven.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This. The honest answer is some degree of "We've been generous, but they will kill us once they outnumber us."

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Inb4 literal centuries of literature, film, games, etc. in which the primary theme is "we were the real 'savages' all along"

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah but "my people" is humanity. That's the difference.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, you and I feel that way. Actually there's a neat test of values. Ask people to rank the following in terms of personal importance, what do they value the most, to the least?

world / country / state / town / friends / family

Or any slight variation of the above. I would put country in last place, for sure. What about you? Many people would put the world last.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Frankly I put state last.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah those Marsians can fuck right off back to their home!!1!one