The reasons people give you for things are often fake, in the sense of not being a True Objection.
This is so true. In my experience, the reasons people give for doing things are mostly useful for determining how someone wants to be perceived. Otherwise, I dismiss them as fake and made-up on the spot.
(I thought this comment would be more useful with call-for-action “so how should we rewrite that article and make it common knowledge for everyone who joined LW recently?” but was too lazy to write it.)
This is so true. In my experience, the reasons people give for doing things are mostly useful for determining how someone wants to be perceived. Otherwise, I dismiss them as fake and made-up on the spot.
[Un]surprisingly, there’s already a Sequences article on this, namely Is That Your True Rejection?.
(I thought this comment would be more useful with call-for-action “so how should we rewrite that article and make it common knowledge for everyone who joined LW recently?” but was too lazy to write it.)