Can You Hate Everyone In Rome?

Applies his ingroup/outgroup/fargroup framework (from 'I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup') to the popular take that calling Trump voters beyond-the-pale, or anti-immigration selfish, means 'writing off half the country.' Scott's question: is there actually a rule against hating half the country? Thought experiment: time-travel to ancient Rome c. 100 AD, where nearly everyone is by modern standards morally insane (slavery, crucifying escaped slaves, gladiatorial games, massacring rebellious provinces). He concludes he could interact with the Romans fairly normally - and would feel less burning anger toward them than toward the most annoying people in his own society (Taylor Lorenz, the bottom 10% of Twitter socialists). The explanation is the fargroup: write-off-anger fires only for outgroups (pre-existing conflict tied to one's own insecurities), not for a truly alien group however objectively worse, especially when backed by 100% of one's real community. Conclusion: depravity alone does not obligate hatred; and since hatred is coalition-instrumental (useful only to motivate shunning/punishing people you can actually punish), hating half of society is irrational - so 'you can't hate half the country' partly means 'it isn't worth it; you'll have to rely on persuasion.'

Quality 71 · Strong. Strong band. A sharp, clarifying application of his fargroup framework to a live question, with a clever thought experiment and a genuine conclusion (the coalition-instrumental theory of hatred). Held in Strong because it is short, exploratory ('I'm not sure'), and builds directly on his existing Outgroup/fargroup concept rather than introducing a new one. A=71.

Claude’s paradigm shift 46 · Moderate. Moderate. A fresh extension (you cannot hate a fargroup; hatred is coalition-instrumental) of his own 2014 ingroup/outgroup/fargroup frame, not a new paradigm. B=46.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. A sharp application of his ingroup/outgroup/fargroup framework to 'can you write off half the country?' via the ancient-Rome thought experiment, landing a coalition-instrumental theory of hatred. Conceptual influence within discourse, short and exploratory, builds on the existing Outgroup concept, no material change — low RWI.