Message from @Benjamin Bucks

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2018-05-01 07:29:25 UTC  

Things that you *feel*

2018-05-01 07:29:30 UTC  

thats rational

2018-05-01 07:29:32 UTC  

And that's where the irrationally kicks in

2018-05-01 07:29:35 UTC  

Nope

2018-05-01 07:29:37 UTC  

It never is

2018-05-01 07:29:50 UTC  

You only think it is because of things like confirmatiuon bias and cognitive dissonance

2018-05-01 07:30:03 UTC  

Oh wait i misread

2018-05-01 07:30:05 UTC  

But yeah

2018-05-01 07:30:06 UTC  

go back to your human studies class kid.

2018-05-01 07:30:08 UTC  

We're agreeing essentially

2018-05-01 07:30:14 UTC  

Shane how old are you

2018-05-01 07:30:21 UTC  

shane watches ben shapiro rekt videos

2018-05-01 07:30:26 UTC  

thats where he gets his political commentary

2018-05-01 07:30:39 UTC  

Shane is what's known as the "Lone Penguin" in my field

2018-05-01 07:30:48 UTC  

Theyre the people who don't have anything of value to add to the conversation

2018-05-01 07:30:50 UTC  

what major are you

2018-05-01 07:30:58 UTC  

I've been out of college for a while

2018-05-01 07:31:13 UTC  

what do you mean by your field

2018-05-01 07:31:20 UTC  

But the lone penguin is someone who comes in like "LOL btw dont listen to this guy he doesn't know what hes talking about"

2018-05-01 07:31:24 UTC  

And then they leave

2018-05-01 07:31:27 UTC  

The Lone Penguin

2018-05-01 07:31:35 UTC  

Persuasion

2018-05-01 07:31:46 UTC  

human beings arent entirely irrational

2018-05-01 07:31:49 UTC  

I use persuasion on a professional level. There's like 4 different levels

2018-05-01 07:32:02 UTC  

Amateur, Professional, Commerical, and Master PErsuader

2018-05-01 07:32:06 UTC  

feelings are sure but dealing with them isn't necessarily

2018-05-01 07:32:07 UTC  

*typos

2018-05-01 07:32:28 UTC  

We like to think humans are rational about 90 percent of the time and like 10 percent of the time we get irrational

2018-05-01 07:32:34 UTC  

The truth is it's the opposite

2018-05-01 07:32:57 UTC  

We're irrational 90 percent of the time, and we're rational about 10 percent about things that don't really matter or have no emotional baggage to them

2018-05-01 07:33:05 UTC  

Like, you'll be rational about doing your taxes

2018-05-01 07:33:25 UTC  

ill rationally vote for someone based off of my irrational normative values

2018-05-01 07:33:26 UTC  

But you won't be rational about picking your favorite player or picking your career or your wife or literally anything that will matter to you

2018-05-01 07:33:31 UTC  

for example if they support socialism

2018-05-01 07:33:32 UTC  

i vote them

2018-05-01 07:33:45 UTC  

its rational but its rooted in feelings

2018-05-01 07:33:48 UTC  

or normative systems

2018-05-01 07:34:00 UTC  

And that's fine.

2018-05-01 07:34:21 UTC  

But the trap is thinking you're the only logical person....and it's every one else whos irrational

2018-05-01 07:34:44 UTC  

Which is really what causes so much division. We think the other side is full of idiots and our side is generally pretty okay

2018-05-01 07:34:47 UTC  

very few people think that