The most fractious debates are over inconsequential matters that accommodate knee-jerk polarization? This makes sense. Trivial issues allow for pure signaling. If the issue were substantive, you might support one side or the other for policy reasons, and that muddies things.
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Yes. And it's even worse than that because in these contexts, experience leads to habituation. By trial and error, people discover which contexts are mutually rewarding in their stereotypical confirmations. So, they become stable and chronically salient...collision spaces.
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Like, so many arguments are over distinctions without differences. And, absent social cues, *no one would even perceive a distinction*. But, if some social cue reliably partitions who has what opinion, people get confused and see that as the difference, rendering it IMPORTANT.
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