[ExI] a little essay on anger and respect

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Belief overrides reason almost every time
for the vast majority of people.  spike

How do you know this,  Spike and Ben?  What is the basis for your belief?
Just a general cynicism about humans?  'People are getting dumber'- a
question on Quora this morning for me.  My answer - how do you know this?
"Well, doesn't everyone know these things?"  Nope.

A better sentence:  many times irrational ideas override reason.  But it
varies from person to person, just like anything else.  I think perhaps
extremists at either end of the spectrum will fit the statement better.
Statements that apply to most of the human race are very difficult to make
in a valid way.   bill w

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:50 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> ...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] a little essay on anger and respect
>
> >... Belief overrides reason every time, and for the vast majority of
> people, it's their feelings that drive their thinking and behaviour, not
> reason... Ben
>
> Ben your comment is almost right.  Belief overrides reason almost every
> time
> for the vast majority of people.
>
> I speak as one (of only two people I know) who reasoned my way out of my
> religion.  I saw nothing morally or ethically wrong with it, still don't.
> But the underlying theory was incorrect.  It took me years to come to grips
> with that, but eventually I did.
>
> There are remaining contradictions in a way.  I personally know people who
> accept and embrace my former religion in a way that saved their lives and
> made them into decent people.  They "know" the theory isn't right, but go
> along with it anyway because the fake-it-till-you-make-it notion works for
> some.  They have a higher tolerance for cognitive dissonance than I do
> perhaps.
>
> spike
>
>
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