the experiment has little real-world applicability due to there being so many more variables involved in real conflicts - on the worldwide scale, for example.
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I have long held that the Human animal (more specifically, his delicate ego) requires a sense of seperation, and sense of boundary between my self and my environment. In a social context this very same algrythm extends from "me vs. my environment" to "us vs. the environment". And the heavy reliance on humans means that the most important factor in (nearly) any environment is the "other humans" in that environment. Hence, "us vs. them".
This study is an interesting illustration of that. I pulled out that specific line becuase it really irked me. What a pointlessly obvious thing to say about a scientific expirement. The commentor (critic) apparently missed the point about how the only way to model this sort of stuff in a full scale environment was to wait for it to happen in the real world. Which is (a) not financially or logistically feasible and (b) a little too late to be of any use.
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