I'm not sure if you've ever listened to the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, but I'm always struck by his level-headed and non-judgmental description of how humans can be duplicitous.
“The very things that make you so intelligently adaptive simultaneously make you vulnerable to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior.”
It’s not an endorsement, or an excuse, it’s a warning.
That quote came from his Awakening From the Meaning Crisis lecture series which mark (npub1h2s…zhwd) did a wonderful job summarizing here
https://markmulvey.medium.com/
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