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That's the fight or flight response. We view intellectual questioning of positions we hold as an attack on our person. Our rationality goes out the window, our
by InclinedPlane 12y ago
That's the fight or flight response. We view intellectual questioning of positions we hold as an attack on our person. Our rationality goes out the window, our aggression ramps up, and it becomes impossible to back down. It's the main causative agent for flame wars.
- philwelch 12y agopg wrote about that as well: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html