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Hypocrisy is the wrong diagnosis. The ordinary mind is simply built for a different world.
The mind is built for a different world. It copes remarkably well with this one.
What feels like a preference is often just a default nobody questioned.
Economists have a model. The rest of us have a Tuesday.
The story we tell afterwards is tidier than the choice we made at the time.
Before we try to fix people, it is worth understanding what they are for.
The cost is obvious, the benefit is diffuse, and so the benefit loses.