The Burning Need to Force Your Views on Others

Why do we freak out just because other people think differently?

I have been writing about it for a while now: one of the signature human pathologies is the urge to force collective solutions on everyone.

We are a highly social species, and thus we have developed, as a part of our basic psychological wiring, the notion that “finding ways to live together” must mean forcing everyone in a certain area to live in a certa…