• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Cognitive dissonance" is when a person’s behaviors don’t match their stated values or beliefs. It’s basically a fancy word for hypocrisy as it relates to argumentation / debate.

    I don’t think thats the definition of cognitive dissonance. It’s just holding two conflicting ideas at the same time, so your behaviour is by default not aligning with your ideas, because it’s impossible.

    I’m not seeing it in @bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s argument here.

    I think the cognitive dissonance lies in the fact that they state no one should be subjected to that behavior, but they are arguing in favour of a person who is perpetuating the action upon others.

    whether or not Conservatives deserve suffering

    Right, but they were the only person who brought in the concept of “deserve”, it’s a strawman argument.

    Deserve implies some sort of ethical construct to judge the justification of the action. When in reality we are not choosing wether or not this action is being done, just witnessing it.

    Cognitive dissidence"

    Yeah, for some reason my autocorrect really like dissidence over dissonance. But I’d say that’s a fairly pedantic point to base your argument.