I genuinely do not understand the moral outrage that people express at some of my lines of questioning. It's a bit novel each time, and to some extent I'm drawn to figuring out which kinds of question that trigger the outrage. But it seems so inconsistent!
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Some qs I predict people would get upset about, but they don't at all. Others seem extremely innocuous or basic questions I assume everyone asks and then I get slapped upside the head with surprise anger. I've learned ppl are touchy about trans, pedos, bestiality, and autists.
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and like, it is intuitive to me that those questions are more charged, but not intuitive to me that they're anger inducing. I've sort of assumed the charged areas are the most interesting places to ask qs and some part of me
doesn't get why everyone else doesn't feel the same
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The moral psychology research (especially work done by ) reveals that people don't even want to contemplate certain ideas. So, to them, just asking a question is morally outrageous. I love it, though. Thanks.
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Interesting question but peoples triggers are as diverse as there are people.
Maybe more interesting is can triggers be classified into themes?
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A widespread brainworm right now is "I'm just asking questions hurr durr." People are overprimed to interpret anyone asking questions about some sensitive topic as arguing for whichever side they think is abhorrent.
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low decouplers split on any questioning, interpreting it as a normative statement, which, triggering their disgust response, is seen as an attack
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people really do be out here treating questions as attacks due to a cached trauma reaction to growing up embedded in an adversarial culture in which questioning was typically a prelude to a boundary violation
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People have two modes of thought; the dominant one (System 1) is fast and largely powered by association.
We use that to very quickly judge whether like/dislike something (like your polls), so hot button topics will dissuade many.
Conscious thinking (System 2) is rare.
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