it's important to consider them anyway, though; there's nothing inherent to reality that *stops* it from coinciding with a powerful cultural formation's preferred narrative less likely the more important it is to 'em, though. no point to articles of faith that are actually true
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all reasoning is motivated, calling *some* reasoning motivated is just a low-effort dismissal of that reasoning tbh
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is there a better term i should use for starting with your conclusions and working backward from them
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fully concur, it's just the version where the endgame is using social power to make everybody pretend the reality of the week is true, i.e. The Trump Management Style But Woke, that i'm mad at
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this is definitely a thing that happens sometimes, but noticing it opens up the possibility of misdiagnosing assertions you'd prefer not to accept as being made in good faith as mere 'realities of the week', which I think ends up just being another thought-terminating cliche
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social constructs are things that take *a lot* of people ceasing to believe in them before they go away
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dunno about elkus but that's minor compared to how absolutist social constructivism necessarily implies that all social constructs are arbitrary, so there's no reason we can't have the social constructs we want and only those and any problems that happen are because of wreckers
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i’m pretty sure i could have picked an less trollish example that everybody is happy seeing kicked around like Randroids or furries but what’s the fun in that
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depends on whether you'd stop respecting them if they changed
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And vice versa, thanks for posing good questions & listening. I do think it's worth trying to do unmotivated reasoning, I just think it's more of a good target to aim for than an achievable goal, and that thinking you've made it is a sign of hubris.
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