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You're just repeating what I said with different words. Yes, throughout history, people who bucked the rules and practices of society might have been called "out group members", but that's just a label. The substance is that they're eschewing society, and obviously should expect society to react and shun them. Confront them, maybe. Some societies used banishment.

Either way, the label is being self-applied here to indulge a victim complex in someone who doesn't like that society is reacting to their decision to go against society. Consider that total jerks and crazy folks use exactly the same logic.

Not that anyone here is a jerk, or crazy, just that the "I'm an independent thinker and everyone else is drinking the kool aid" argument is tired and oblivious and self-indulgent and applies equally when used by jerks and nuts. The dude on the street corner shouting racial slurs at the top of their lungs and swatting at invisible spiders thinks he's "just part of the out group", too.