If the whole village was like Belle, except Gaston and his eccentric but supportive father, would we root for the outsider gaston, bullied and on the fringe because of his unpopular and unconventional views? Would we applaud his strength for maintaining true to himself even against the majorities wishes? I wouldn't. Because it's not about "outsiders" it's about seeing a person you sympathize with or identify with triumph. Values like freedom and equality are not universal. The majority is not always right, but not always wrong. We cheer because the ending validates our beliefs and sees "our side" teach the "backwards savages" to be "civilized." The theme of most history books. It's not about right or wrong, it's about forcing others to submit to our opinion on how the world should be, the opposition always believes they are just as right and that you are just as evil for your views.
I agree with this. Simply because you are different from what people accept as conventional, that doesn't inherently place you in the right. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with what was being said in the original post, I simply feel that anytime we romanticize the whole "David and Goliath" type of story, instead of seeing each incidence or tale as individual happenings, we run the risk of applying blanketed reason to all situations.
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