Human Nature

[Alan V]

I just gotta say -- the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

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Sometimes I think our worst inclinations are hampered too by our incompetence.

The world we actually live in, the one which careful science and scholarship have uncovered, is often so counter-intuitive to human preferences that many social groups operate by assumptions which have been proven incorrect. That disconnect between the facts and people's various worldviews is more than enough to account for our general incompetence, as well as for the many problems and even disasters which are the result.

And we keep doubling down, so I'm not convinced we will actually learn, even the hard way. Humans have a remarkable capacity to rationalize because of our "good intentions."