America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

Re:America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era by thrance on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:44AM (#43643705)

I don't think it's cognitive dissonance if you recognize the issue. Also, you can both enjoy a good burger and be disgusted at the idea of killing a cow yourself. As you said, it's simply an hypocrisy (of which I am guilty too). From Wikipedia [1], (emphasis mine):

> In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

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Re:America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era by wpietri on Thursday April 10, 2025 @10:47AM (#43644342)

> I don't think it's cognitive dissonance if you recognize the issue.

Well I recognize the issue and still experience a feeling of dissonance. Indeed, I work to be able to be tolerant of that feeling, because I think it's important in pursuing deeper understanding.

If you have a better term I'm all for it. But I think the "unknowingly" there is meant more as the general case rather than an absolute limit on the term.

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Re:America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era by thaneross on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:50PM (#43647444)

Violating ethical beliefs when they are inconvenient is what I'd call "moral hypocrisy". Practically everyone is guilty of it to varying degrees.

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