• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    And I’d say this is your convenient retrofitting of an optimistic rational theory onto what is in fact almost always much simpler and more brutish: “I had a negative response to this because it contradicts my beliefs and gave me cognitive dissonance”, regardless of its objective merits. You must know this. Anyway, we’ll agree to disagree.