1)So they can feel better about themselves. Reminds me of a recent rant in a friend journal about how some northerners put down the South as backward, ignorant and bigoted like somehow those things don't exist in the northern states.
2)Because it takes less effort than believing in "the possibility of decency (however deadened) even in people for whom I can't find a single present thing to like."
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Date: 2002-07-22 02:27 pm (UTC)2)Because it takes less effort than believing in "the possibility of decency (however deadened) even in people for whom I can't find a single present thing to like."