Morgan Housel

It's them, it's they.

And that once you dehumanize any group of people like that, and this has been the case for all of human history, that 99.9% of people cannot kill another human, but they're perfectly fine killing them, they, that group.

Once you dehumanize, you can do anything.

And at a much lower level, everyone realizes this with road rage.

I've had road rage.

The person cut me off.

That son of a bitch honked my horn.

I don't get too extreme with it.

But in things I would never do eye to eye.

But once I'm looking at a car, then there's no human there.

And my ability to have a level of anger is so much higher than it would be if we were just looking eye to eye.

I had this experience a couple of years ago where I was pulling into a gas station and I inadvertently cut somebody off.

It was an accident, but I totally cut them off.

And he honked and threw up his middle finger at me.

And since we pulled into the same gas station, we were now like eye to eye.

And I walked over to him and I think he thought I was like coming to like confront him.

And I put on my hands and said, I just want to apologize.

I didn't mean to cut you off.

I'm so sorry.

It was not on purpose.