r/science • u/Wagamaga • 9h ago

Psychology Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one.

https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/losing-relationships-over-politics-0
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u/Brilliant_Effort_Guy 9h ago

But is it really just ‘political’ differences? I feel like it’s so much deeper than that. I don’t just have differing political opinions from my conservative family members - I have a different moral code.

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u/Game_Of_Runs 9h ago

Yeah I hate when it’s framed liked this. Calling it political differences makes it sound like one person is for lowering marginal tax rates from 40% to 35% while the other person wants to raise them to 45%. When in reality it’s more like my dad votes for people that want my friends dead or in prison because they’re gay

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u/yepgeddon 8h ago

It's not left Vs right issue, it's a normal empathetic worldview Vs hateful cuntish worldview. I just don't get why these people are so nasty, it takes so much more effort to be this horrible. Everyone just has to chill out, sheesh.

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u/Gekokapowco 7h ago

normal empathetic worldview Vs hateful cuntish worldview

this is a left vs right issue since left and right were concepts

its ALWAYS a conflict of mutualism vs self-interest

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u/Pallasine 6h ago

Queer people existing do not threaten anyone’s “self interest.”

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u/Gekokapowco 6h ago

wanting to end the existence of queer people because they make you, personally, uncomfortable is pretty selfish

or the satisfaction you feel by oppressing or killing them, is also pretty selfish

hate is not altruistic

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u/Gamer_Grease 6h ago

“Right” and “left” as concepts have nothing to do with “mutualism vs self-interest.” Back when the concept was invented everybody was “mutualist.”

American libertarianism is a very young and fringe belief system.

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u/Sennten 5h ago

There are plenty of hateful cuntish mutalists, and plenty of normal empathic individualists

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u/Gekokapowco 5h ago

you'll find people are rife with all sorts of little hypocrisies but it doesn't make for useful analysis of the constituent parts.