What happens when your sense of superiority applies not to an individual whom you just beat at, say, a game of chess, but to an entire demographic? Most of those people you have never met and will never meet. You feel superior because somebody told you it was okay to feel that way—your parents, or some political or social authority. You might expect cultural bias to get handed down from one generation to the next, or nationalistic delusions to override rationalistic thought. You might also be convinced by a spokesperson for God that your religion is better than everybody else’s. But what
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