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Originally Posted by Fazor
That's kinda what I was getting at in my first post, although rather wordily. If they don't know the answer, and it's too difficult to understand, or requires too much effort, there's no limit to the lengths people will go to to invent an easier way to reach an answer.
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Yes. Most people want "truthiness", not truth. And rationalizing is easy, everybody does it.
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