The costs of walling ourselves off
- Once we slap a label on others, we don’t bother to look more closely, and our fears grow.
- We are actually less safe. Labeling entire groups of people as good guys or bad guys is dangerous, because we end up accidentally putting white hats on bad guys and black hats on good guys.
- We waste precious resources. Trying to wall ourselves off from entire groups of people is exhausting and inefficient.
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