Might seem that way to you because you don’t actually go around all day saying, “And now I shall doublethink myself into believing X!” Deliberate self-deception is a subset of self-deception well worth slicing off the carcass. E.g. Utilitarian from OB.
Just because the boundary of deliberate self-deception is fuzzy, doesn’t mean the boundary is not worth drawing. The more so in this particular case, as if you wonder “Is this a deliberate self-deception that I can’t get away with, or a non-deliberate one that I might still be able to pull off?” it has already reached the point of being deliberate. (Repeating this to yourself will make it even more true.)
Might seem that way to you because you don’t actually go around all day saying, “And now I shall doublethink myself into believing X!” Deliberate self-deception is a subset of self-deception well worth slicing off the carcass. E.g. Utilitarian from OB.
Just because the boundary of deliberate self-deception is fuzzy, doesn’t mean the boundary is not worth drawing. The more so in this particular case, as if you wonder “Is this a deliberate self-deception that I can’t get away with, or a non-deliberate one that I might still be able to pull off?” it has already reached the point of being deliberate. (Repeating this to yourself will make it even more true.)