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Old 05-11-2015, 09:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I know you mentioned it, I just elaborated on it. I think the fact that it's a group response goes against it being an antisocial thing, even if it's technically antisocial when compared to the whole of society simply because it's a social event in itself.
It may be pro-social on the group level, but the individuals are acting anti-socially by joining the counter-culture in the first place. What they do afterward doesn't erase that. The counter-culture will be anti-social by nature.
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