The argument that walls *generally* don’t work (which is prima facie absurd) provides an interesting illustration of how motivated reasoning works in political arguments.https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1076616122844229632 …
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Fair. Good point. But is that just because of motivated reasoning? And hence the phenomena/puzzle I started with? Or you think they are actually using logic/language, even outside of the political discourse, differently?
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Political alignments trumps reason for most people. You cannot argue against their political positions withput antagonizing them, even and especially if you are correct.
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