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It has nothing to do with the size of the group.

It's about whether a member of the group will ever have to encounter or understand views that are unorthodox in that group.

If not, they assume they can't be wrong. It's the "way things are" which nobody disputes.

This creates a mental blindness where they can't possibly imagine someone wanting to say something in good faith that was against this "way things are", to them it would be like saying the Earth has no moon or that cats can fly. Why would you claim that? What's wrong with you?




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