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I wouldn't rush to blame "collectivist society" for random acts of violence when America exists.
You might want to read my post again if thats what you came away with. If you're still having difficulty, let me know, I'm willing to type out the long explanation of what I am seeing is pretty clear right now.
hm, i agree with that poster; surely there's an explanation for random attacks on civilians that covers both china and the US?
That's not the question that OP asked, nor the one I answered.
It's cute that you think your thought was deeper than that.
Oh honey. Not deeper, in fact my comment was very plain. Instead you're showing you lack basic reading comprehension skills preventing you from parsing a conversation and I was trying to spare your feelings. It doesn't sound like you're interested in having your feelings spared.
Here it is because it looks like you can't follow a basic conversation:
The OP asks: Why do these individuals target innocent people? [instead of the specific person that did them wrong]?
I communicated the idea: "If you live in a collectivist society there isn't 'one person', but instead society itself that decides what you get and what you don't. So if there isn't one person the attacker can blame, then any person in society becomes someone the attacker can blame, so the attacker attacks otherwise innocent people because they represent society to the attacker"
Spare me from unaware bigots splashing in their piss puddle and thinking it's a pool.
You make a very convincing argument you are a troll bot.
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