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Some days it’s really disheartening to realize just how stupid most people are, and that those are the same people who have the strongest opinions about things.

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Nic 11mo ago

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Have you ever read The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt? I think he does a great job exploring how emotional responses shape our thinking process.

First, you have an emotional reaction to something, then you try to logically justify that emotion, which ultimately becomes your opinion.

I think that's exactly what's happening with Ross. Trump pardoned him, libertarians are celebrating, and these morons have a negative emotional response to that. Then they scramble to rationalize their feelings, which leads them to the worst opinion imaginable.

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Brisket 11mo ago

It all starts with beliefs.

From the beliefs, feelings thoughts & actions arise.

He's right, the human mind is not as rational as we'd like to believe. The feeling does generally arrive first & the thoughts are often used justify the feeling & the belief itself.

Some folks strongly identify with their beliefs. It forms part of who they believe they are. They will defend their beliefs like it's them being attacked.

For most people, beliefs are simply accumulated from their family & social groups. This makes many people fairly easy to manipulate because they acquire beliefs like a kid in a candy store.