I suppose it's only natural for us to be more lenient towards our ingroup than outgroups but I still find this phenomena frustrating.
For philosophers or rationals (or whatever you want to call crazy people like me) we tend to expect others to be similarly rational. But since so many are ignorant or irrational, those within our ingroup often get a free pass.
So, to be consistent we could be equally hard on those within our ingroup but this move isn't very human because we are the anomaly here and it's a move toward isolation and consequent loneliness.
The alternate move is to lend your sympathies to irrationality in outgroups in the same way you lend them to your ingroup. This is the move I attempt to make as it seems most fit for this more heterogeneous world and it matches my Whitmanesque desires for world travelling.
Note that this meditation doesn't speak at all to lenience toward other rationals. I prefer a bit of contention in that ingroup.
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