I agree with the general take—my explanation of why people often have pushback to the idea of acausal reasoning is because they never really have cause to actively apply it. In the cases of voting or recycling, the acausal argument naively feels more like post-fact justification than proactive reason to do it if it weren’t the norm.
Most of the cases of people doing some things explained by acausal reasoning but not other equally sensible things also requiring acausal justification seem really well-modelled as what they were already going to do without thinking about it too hard. When they think about it too hard is when you end up with a lot of people who actively disagree with that line of thought—and a lot of people I know take that stance, that acausal reasoning isn’t valid and so they don’t have personal onus to recycle or switch careers to work on effective things (usually because corporations and other entities have more singular weight), but still vote.
I agree with the general take—my explanation of why people often have pushback to the idea of acausal reasoning is because they never really have cause to actively apply it. In the cases of voting or recycling, the acausal argument naively feels more like post-fact justification than proactive reason to do it if it weren’t the norm.
Most of the cases of people doing some things explained by acausal reasoning but not other equally sensible things also requiring acausal justification seem really well-modelled as what they were already going to do without thinking about it too hard. When they think about it too hard is when you end up with a lot of people who actively disagree with that line of thought—and a lot of people I know take that stance, that acausal reasoning isn’t valid and so they don’t have personal onus to recycle or switch careers to work on effective things (usually because corporations and other entities have more singular weight), but still vote.