2023-11-09 21:45:45
If wearing a red shirt were a source of jeers, I could nevertheless wear one, either because I like it, or because the jeers don’t matter to me, or because such a shirt would give me access to a community whose the benefits would outweigh the harm of taunting.
If red shirts were grounds for hatred and segregation, I think I would remove them all from my wardrobe, probably permanently, unless the diehard community conferred huge advantages on me, such as access to vital resources or important privileges of all kinds. I would, however, study the benefit/risk ratio of the red shirt as carefully as is necessary to evaluate the benefit/risk ratio of a dangerous drug.
If wearing a red shirt exposed me to the risk of violence or death, it would then have to be a principle of identity, an ideological support or a religious precept beyond any reason for me to persist in wearing it. wear one. I would also have to carry weapons or live in a community of red shirt wearers surrounded by fortifications. A less trivial strategy would be to invent motives for hatred against the Blackshirts to distract the bullies. This last option presupposes that the potential for violence and the number of bullies is not too expandable; postulate still to be confirmed.
For their part, black shirt wearers would have the same options; their last option would then consist of inventing a third target color, this would a priori be less effective, because history shows that identity ideologies and religions are shaped in a rather binary way. Certainly a world with infinite target colors would be almost as perfect as a world without target colors.
Finally, if I had neither the wisdom nor the intelligence to question the origin of the identity imperative of a red or black shirt, the simple system of the single target, black or red, would allow me precisely not to painfully confront my cognitive limits.
Ideologies and religions certainly have therapeutic value, but the benefit/risk ratio of shirt colors is much more difficult to assess than that of medications. For my part, I avoid medications, red shirts, and black shirts. Prudence or cowardice, precaution or reason, unconsciousness or wisdom, I really cannot say.
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