This might shock you, but I think you’re one of the button-people. You’re asked about “minimum wage” and, without thinking, the most defensible claim you know comes out of your mouth (by defensible, I mean either easy to prove or hard to falsify). But why? Surely, you rationally understand that social connections have value, and that talking to people is a social activity. Yet your behaviors don’t reflect that understanding.
Seriously though, I find your dichotomy quite bad. It’s true that some people worry about the consistency of their beliefs more than others. That’s because enforcing consistency takes effort. You think that your mind works in distinctly different ways, while in reality you’re merely wasting your efforts on unimportant things that most people know not to bother with. That’s probably because you’ve put yourself in the “rational” social group, and that’s just what “rational” people do.
Another issue is that “family values” and not helping our brother don’t need to contradict each other. It sounds like you build trivial models of people, observe the models fail and deduce that no reasonable models exist. This is not to say that people never contradict themselves, of course. And I’m willing to imagine that you’re talking about a real person, whose circumstances and values are well known to you, and who truly are contradicting themselves. However the text does not suggest this convincingly.
This might shock you, but I think you’re one of the button-people. You’re asked about “minimum wage” and, without thinking, the most defensible claim you know comes out of your mouth (by defensible, I mean either easy to prove or hard to falsify). But why? Surely, you rationally understand that social connections have value, and that talking to people is a social activity. Yet your behaviors don’t reflect that understanding.
Seriously though, I find your dichotomy quite bad. It’s true that some people worry about the consistency of their beliefs more than others. That’s because enforcing consistency takes effort. You think that your mind works in distinctly different ways, while in reality you’re merely wasting your efforts on unimportant things that most people know not to bother with. That’s probably because you’ve put yourself in the “rational” social group, and that’s just what “rational” people do.
Another issue is that “family values” and not helping our brother don’t need to contradict each other. It sounds like you build trivial models of people, observe the models fail and deduce that no reasonable models exist. This is not to say that people never contradict themselves, of course. And I’m willing to imagine that you’re talking about a real person, whose circumstances and values are well known to you, and who truly are contradicting themselves. However the text does not suggest this convincingly.