‘people’ doesn’t mean all people, and that it is tractable and common to change who falls into this category or who in it is salient and taken to represent ‘people’.
The default for this, of course, is ‘people I spend time with’. Which is why it makes sense for parents to worry so much about their kids hanging out with the wrong crowd.
IMO it is very hard to spend time with people without coming to care what they think. That’s why spies go rogue, diplomats go native, and earn-to-give EAs are at high risk of starting to think like their non-altruistic colleagues.
The default for this, of course, is ‘people I spend time with’. Which is why it makes sense for parents to worry so much about their kids hanging out with the wrong crowd.
IMO it is very hard to spend time with people without coming to care what they think. That’s why spies go rogue, diplomats go native, and earn-to-give EAs are at high risk of starting to think like their non-altruistic colleagues.