Sometimes people's beliefs guide their actions. But more often people adjust their beliefs so that they fit the course of action they wanted to take
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When you see people gravitate towards clusters of political or religious beliefs that enable them to say "screw the lives of everyone else and future generations, my personal interest comes first", it's always a post-hoc ideological rationalization of their personal inclination
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Not always. It is difficult to untangle personal inclination from social structure, socialisation etc.
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I think the distinction between 'believing in' and 'believing that' is ought to be made here. I believe in civil rights and believe that Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla. While obviosuly not mutually exclusive, 'believing in' need not be epistemic.
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