What on earth could cause this squabbling?

What could be more normal than humans not getting on with one another? Look at a playground filled with even the youngest pupils, and tell me they all act like friends.

Look at a sports stadium’s adult audience, and discover if they all share a

wonderful bond of agreement and friendship.

Humans seem to thrive on conflict. The bigger the difference between the ideals of one group and another, the more passionately they argue, the more the other side is detested.

Despising and mocking

In the stadium, the two sides of a team have the same number, are made up of people of a similar age, background and skills.
And yet, the crowd finds a reason for conflict, for despising and mocking.

If football fans can have passionate feelings, what’s the surprise when people in politics argue? Arguments within the second most influential political party are filling the news, because – shock, horror! - some in the party seemingly don’t like a religious group of – presumably – otherwise like-minded people.  Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at

http://sailingtopurgatory.com/index.php/feeds/415-what-on-earth-could-cause-this-newsy-squabbling