āFor example, if youāre trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didnāt see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldnāt make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT ā even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to āthis is important, so do WHATEVER I SAYā; they want to be convinced that what youāre proposing will work.ā
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