I wonder if that's it though... wasn't there a "give me freedom or give me death" mindset in some groups of people 'bout treating your own freedom as more valuable than your own life? Seems to me it would be very very easy to generalize that to your own freedom being more valuable than the lives of other people especially if those lives aren't people you know and don't really affect you. Since, to any given individual, the lives of people they don't know are less valuable than their own.D-Rock wrote:...they fail to see that being stupid has the very high potential to spread a disease to everyone else, not just them.
This is just an alternate theory, mind you. But psychology is interesting, and I've got nothing better to do!