<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Belief overrides reason almost every time</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">for the vast majority of people. spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">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.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">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</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:50 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br>
Subject: Re: [ExI] a little essay on anger and respect<br>
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>... Belief overrides reason every time, and for the vast majority of<br>
people, it's their feelings that drive their thinking and behaviour, not<br>
reason... Ben<br>
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Ben your comment is almost right. Belief overrides reason almost every time<br>
for the vast majority of people.<br>
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I speak as one (of only two people I know) who reasoned my way out of my<br>
religion. I saw nothing morally or ethically wrong with it, still don't.<br>
But the underlying theory was incorrect. It took me years to come to grips<br>
with that, but eventually I did.<br>
<br>
There are remaining contradictions in a way. I personally know people who<br>
accept and embrace my former religion in a way that saved their lives and<br>
made them into decent people. They "know" the theory isn't right, but go<br>
along with it anyway because the fake-it-till-you-make-it notion works for<br>
some. They have a higher tolerance for cognitive dissonance than I do<br>
perhaps.<br>
<br>
spike<br>
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