at some level of sociodynamics poisoning, it becomes challenging not to dismiss out of hand any proposition that neatly fits a powerful cultural formation's preferred narrative, on the assumption that it's a febrile product of motivated reasoning
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honestly I do think it's the default human mode and not remarkably objectionable; starting from the conclusion is a good way to reach the conclusions you need to reach, and if you can't build a good chain of reasoning it's a good sign you need to pick a different conclusion.
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as far as i can tell you've conflated induction with motivated reasoning, which is... awful
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