> My take on this is that people need to realize that they are not an exception to this. _Everyone_ has an ideology that overrides logic for many topics. Agree

> My take on this is that people need to realize that they are not an exception to this. _Everyone_ has an ideology that overrides logic for many topics. Agreed, but it's also worth pointing out that not everyone indulges in ideological reasoning to the same degree in general. I've heard people make related arguments that because everyone reasons ideologically at points, there can be no objective position on <topic>; of course this argument holds little water, and it seems designed to rationalize the conversant's belief to himself rather than to persuade his audience.