cognitive_dissonance dafremen It is a radically insane position to take that billionaires are untrustworthy, tax-dodging crooks who should be trusted implicitly with our minds, health and freedom of movement. 210507 ... u24 I always struggled with the idea that people can be internally inconsistent but it happens all the time, even to me. It’s just part of being human, we can hold opposing incompatible views quite easily. 210507 ... dafremen That's the "radically insane" part.. 210508 ... u24 it's radically inconsistent, but I'm not sure it's insane. Depends on the definition of sane, but I'd expect the definition to include some reference to norms. I'd argue that this sort of incompatible belief is extremely normal. I never understood why or how psychologists saw cognitive dissonance as a thing that would cause psychological discomfort. It's just what we do, we're not computers, we don't crash when given a logic bomb. 210509 ... dafremen Do irrational and insane fill the same space? Overlap? Because to trust the untrustworthy is an irrational act. Whether irrational rises to the level of momentary or permanent insanity, is another question. Imo..a well-functioning human computer, would spit the instruction out, execute its fall-through code, and jump to our mammalian BIOS which leans heavily on the side of survival. 210510 ... . ketman 210510 ... dafremen It's just a little odd.. The same people who want to scream at others about gun deaths. The same folks who (rightfully) condemn the military industrial complex and the spreading of war, death and destruction. The folks who preach to others about togetherness and tenderness and how precious the children are. These people who are looking all around themselves for victims of injustice, the oppressed, the forgotten, those without anything. The people who want society to take responsibility for the problems caused by its indifference and selfishness. This is why abortion is a grand hypocrisy. These same people can't see how important it is to do the same for a human life that they have complete domain and control over. What sort of statement is it on our respect for life and our REAL concern for others..when we treat the first human being we have complete authority over with utter disregard by eradicating it? And the rich aren't supposed to do the same to us? Why? 240324 what's it to you? who go blather from