RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
December 12, 2021 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 12, 2021 at 7:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Believing in a thing because other people believe it is explicitly irrational. It's the living embodiment of the ad pop fallacy. Explicitly irrational, but not crazy or disordered....you know, just like here in our witchcraft believing culture...by any other name.
It is not irrational. If there is a need to adopt a belief to support decisions, and there is not the direct information, time and resources to methodically formulate the belief based on evidence, then believing a thing because other people believe it may well be the next best thing.
What is irrational Is holding that conviction because other people believe it, or let that belief form basis of decisions that need not be made, when there is time, resource or direct information required to examine it.
