Low-effort thinking promotes political conservatism

[Free Thinker]

Quote from nutmeg:

Are zoning laws (property rights) conservative or liberal?

neither. they are an effort at equal treatment. would you want to have a million dollar house and have a neighbor come along and build a noisy stinky business,like an auto salvage yard, right next door to you?
your property right does not give you the right to reduce the value of my property. zoning laws are really the only solution to the problem.

 

[377OHMS]

Quote from Free Thinker:

conservatives seem to like simple black and white solutions. logical thinking is just too difficult.
a big example is the recent contraceptive battle. conservatives are against the easy distribution of contraceptives yet they rail about abortion and welfare for poor children.

The part about contraception is made-up. The part about poor children is also made up and Free Thinkers's logical thinking qualifies him to drive a truck and obsess over religion.

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from Free Thinker:

conservatives seem to like simple black and white solutions. logical thinking is just too difficult.
a big example is the recent contraceptive battle. conservatives are against the easy distribution of contraceptives yet they rail about abortion and welfare for poor children.

Contrary to what you might think the answer to MOST (apparently vexing) problems are simple, you just don't seem to like the answers that's when liberal rationalization of your fweelings begins to creep in.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Free Thinker:

conservatives seem to like simple black and white solutions. logical thinking is just too difficult.
a big example is the recent contraceptive battle. conservatives are against the easy distribution of contraceptives yet they rail about abortion and welfare for poor children.

I have said that some of these people are quite primal in their behavior, good to see that science is actually backing this up.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:

Contrary to what you might think the answer to MOST (apparently vexing) problems are simple, you just don't seem to like the answers that's when liberal rationalization of your fweelings begins to creep in.

yes to people like you the answers are simple. seniors cant afford healthcare. let them die. see, simple answers for simple minded people.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from RCG Trader:

I have said that some of these people are quite primal in their behavior, good to see that science is actually backing this up.

many conservatives suffer from cognitive dissonance. its sometimes difficult to make decisions so they opt for sound bite solutions:

Cognitive dissonance is a theory of human motivation that asserts that it is psychologically uncomfortable to hold contradictory cognitions. The theory is that dissonance, being unpleasant, motivates a person to change his cognition, attitude, or behavior. This theory was first explored in detail by social psychologist Leon Festinger, who described it this way:

Dissonance and consonance are relations among cognitions that is, among opinions, beliefs, knowledge of the environment, and knowledge of one's own actions and feelings. Two opinions, or beliefs, or items of knowledge are dissonant with each other if they do not fit together; that is, if they are inconsistent, or if, considering only the particular two items, one does not follow from the other (Festinger 1956: 25).
He argued that there are three ways to deal with cognitive dissonance. He did not consider these mutually exclusive.

1.One may try to change one or more of the beliefs, opinions, or behaviors involved in the dissonance;
2.One may try to acquire new information or beliefs that will increase the existing consonance and thus cause the total dissonance to be reduced; or,
3.One may try to forget or reduce the importance of those cognitions that are in a dissonant relationship (Festinger 1956: 25-26).
For example, people who smoke know smoking is a bad habit. Some rationalize their behavior by looking on the bright side: They tell themselves that smoking helps keep the weight down and that there is a greater threat to health from being overweight than from smoking. Others quit smoking. Most of us are clever enough to come up with ad hoc hypotheses or rationalizations to save cherished notions. Why we can't apply this cleverness more competently is not explained by noting that we are led to rationalize because we are trying to reduce or eliminate cognitive dissonance. Different people deal with psychological discomfort in different ways. Some ways are clearly more reasonable than others. So, why do some people react to dissonance with cognitive competence, while others respond with cognitive incompetence?
http://www.skepdic.com/cognitivedissonance.html

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from RCG Trader:

I have said that some of these people are quite primal in their behavior...

You also said you took flying lessons then claimed you didn't then lied about it.
No one here with a shred of credibility cares what a pathological liar says nurse.

 

[pspr]

What do you people expect from a moron living in liberal Norweigh publishing a leftist article on a U.S. website just so he can watch the Americans argue.

Don't even bother acknowledging this tripe.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Lucrum:

You also said you took flying lessons then claimed you didn't then lied about it.
No one here with a shred of credibility cares what a pathological liar says nurse.

When you mean no one, you mean, you, 377, and pspr. All of you believe in the abolition of civil rights, per your own posts. If anyone here has a credibility gap, it is you.

After all, per Lucrum, women should not vote.

You are a prime study of those primal cave man like thinking processes that define conservative. The epitome of an undifferentiated mind.

Or, in caveman parlance, a loser.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Free Thinker:

many conservatives suffer from cognitive dissonance. its sometimes difficult to make decisions so they opt for sound bite solutions:

Cognitive dissonance is a theory of human motivation that asserts that it is psychologically uncomfortable to hold contradictory cognitions. The theory is that dissonance, being unpleasant, motivates a person to change his cognition, attitude, or behavior. This theory was first explored in detail by social psychologist Leon Festinger, who described it this way:

Dissonance and consonance are relations among cognitions that is, among opinions, beliefs, knowledge of the environment, and knowledge of one's own actions and feelings. Two opinions, or beliefs, or items of knowledge are dissonant with each other if they do not fit together; that is, if they are inconsistent, or if, considering only the particular two items, one does not follow from the other (Festinger 1956: 25).
He argued that there are three ways to deal with cognitive dissonance. He did not consider these mutually exclusive.

1.One may try to change one or more of the beliefs, opinions, or behaviors involved in the dissonance;
2.One may try to acquire new information or beliefs that will increase the existing consonance and thus cause the total dissonance to be reduced; or,
3.One may try to forget or reduce the importance of those cognitions that are in a dissonant relationship (Festinger 1956: 25-26).
For example, people who smoke know smoking is a bad habit. Some rationalize their behavior by looking on the bright side: They tell themselves that smoking helps keep the weight down and that there is a greater threat to health from being overweight than from smoking. Others quit smoking. Most of us are clever enough to come up with ad hoc hypotheses or rationalizations to save cherished notions. Why we can't apply this cleverness more competently is not explained by noting that we are led to rationalize because we are trying to reduce or eliminate cognitive dissonance. Different people deal with psychological discomfort in different ways. Some ways are clearly more reasonable than others. So, why do some people react to dissonance with cognitive competence, while others respond with cognitive incompetence?
http://www.skepdic.com/cognitivedissonance.html

We work with a lot of these concepts when confronted with patients or clients who have wound up institutionalized behind addiction or schizoaffective behavior. One reason why some of these folks will bring up my handle when I am not participating in their convo.

I am literally inside their minds, so they make insecure jokes (only with each other mind you) to assuage that difficulty. I have reduced 377 to not being able to respond at all