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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (123770)	7/19/2010 6:41:23 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	of 132070

skeeter, I think sometimes when people believe something for a very long time, they have an extremely strong psychological vested interest in continuing to believe it. To admit you are wrong in the face of contrary evidence is to admit you have been an idiot for a very long time. That's not an easy thing to do. So rather than seeing things for the way they actually are. people live in a delusional fantasy. We all have experiences like that. When the country was debating whether to go to war in Iraq or not, I had very mixed emotions. Part of me thought we should rarely get involved in overseas issues, part knew the neocons were traitors that were spinning and lying, part knew Iraq had nothing to do with it, but part had legitimate fears about being too passive with a loony in charge over there, what the economic impact would be if we weren't able to protect the oil given that we were tossed out of Saudi Arabia etc.... Since I was 50-50 to start and debated both sides of it with people on both sides, it took me longer to realize it was a mistake because I had a vested interest in believing it was a close call.

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