Comment by const_cast

> I started this thread referencing comments (including the one I cited above) where people explain how they cutoff their friends and relatives because they "side with evil".

Okay, but in the sentence _right before this one_, you acknowledged that evil does exist in modern American and it is popular.

So no need for the scare quotes. They don't "side with evil". They side with evil, literally, by your own admission!

> They're signalling that their tribe is more important than friends and family.

No, they're signalling that they don't want to be friends with people who side with evil.

I don't understand how the point keeps bashing you upside the head and it's still not clicking. You're acting like they're cutting them off because they love their tribe. No no, it's because those people are bad people.

Even regardless of tribalism, there exists bad people. Why would you want to be friends with bad people? That's not a rhetorical question. Is it not kind of pathetic that you wish to befriend people who harm you? Why is that not only something you're advocating for, but using as some sort of moral high ground?

I just don't see the purity or the angelic-ness in supporting or being friends with people who are bad. Really, I don't. I don't see how you, and others, are constructing a pedestal there. It seems self-destructive and virtue-signalling to me. Which, ironically, _is actually tribalism_.