My statement was: "not every citizen of the Imperium is a xenophobic fanatic". It is a true statement. You picked it apart just to criticize one possible interpretation of it, and then to agree with it? I'm a little unsure what agoraphobia has to do with all this, though.Ultrajoe said:The people are, dude. Read the Dark Heresy books and any of the other lore entries regarding the common man in the Imperium. Most, if not all, of them are paranoid agoraphobics who'd glady hang their best friend if they thought for a second they were a mutant, let alone an alien.Augustine said:Actual people of Imperium are not all xenophobic fanatics, despite what Ministorum would like to suggest.
Xenos tolerance is the province of higher-ranking members of society, who know more truths than the indoctrinated masses. The average guy would sooner die than interact with an alien, and would turn over to the inquisition anybody they knew who had so much looked at a xeno and not repented for a year.
Did not read those specific books, but from what I did it is easy to see that in the Hive Cities in the Imperium there are millions(billions?) of people who give less than a damn about anything outside of their daily needs and whims. For example, it's naive to think gangs roaming the Lower City are believers in any sense of the word.