The pain of social rejection is more real than you feel it is. When we are rejected by others we feel actual, physical pain, as clearly demonstrated by a series of studies done by the APA. Excluding others causes them real harm. This is not to say that this is not sometimes necessary; we cannot live with abusers after all. But when we reject people who have done us no harm, we have done a great injustice. Equality cannot be achieved in this way, and peace will remain a boisterous fantasy. People who experience social rejection are more likely to feel potentially dangerous emotions, such as jealousy, sadness and anger. One or even a few of these instances will likely do no harm, but are we really naive enough to believe that the accumulation of such experiences could not possibly cause a few of us to snap? Just look at the conspiracy theorists of the world, completely engulfed in rage every time someone so much as suggest that they may be incorrect. Such behavior is very much related to social isolation, which very easily turns into radicalization. It is not as simple as blaming a computer or even social media. The real reason America has so many conspiracy theorists may be directly related to our culture of rejection, our constant, never-ending rat race to the top of a hill of beans.