It seems like this could be understood as a compartmentalization phenomenon. Epistemically you know “these are awful things to do”, but this doesn’t propagate to the system that’s generating your “I don’t care mood”.
Sometimes when I find myself being awful it’s simply because I’m not paying enough attention. For example, I’ll end up procrastinating by watching YouTube videos without globally seeing the situation, and realizing how I’d actually rather be doing something I cared about.
It seems like this could be understood as a compartmentalization phenomenon. Epistemically you know “these are awful things to do”, but this doesn’t propagate to the system that’s generating your “I don’t care mood”.
Sometimes when I find myself being awful it’s simply because I’m not paying enough attention. For example, I’ll end up procrastinating by watching YouTube videos without globally seeing the situation, and realizing how I’d actually rather be doing something I cared about.