{"id":24,"date":"2018-07-18T22:07:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=24"},"modified":"2018-07-18T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:07:38","slug":"cognitive-dissonance-defending-the-indefensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/07\/18\/cognitive-dissonance-defending-the-indefensible\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance: Defending the Indefensible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantbasednews.org\/post\/commuters-blast-vegan-posters-for-shoving-opinions-on-others\"><strong>Commuters Blast Vegan Posters For &#8216;Forcing Opinions On Others&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The absurdity of this indignant and defensive reaction speaks volumes &#8230; But unlike smoking and alcoholism, which draw similar reactions when we advise quitting, this is not even a defense of the &#8220;freedom of choice&#8221; to hurt oneself. It is a defense of the freedom to harm others. This defense of the indefensible against a defense of the defenseless arises from cognitive dissonance: a moral antinomy trying to camouflage itself from itself.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;absurdit\u00e9 de cette r\u00e9action indign\u00e9e et d\u00e9fensive en dit long &#8230; Mais contrairement au tabagisme et \u00e0 l&#8217;alcoolisme, qui suscitent des r\u00e9actions semblables lorsqu&#8217;on conseille l\u2019abstention, ces r\u00e9actions ne reposent m\u00eame pas sur la d\u00e9fense de la \u00ablibert\u00e9 du choix\u00bb \u00e0 faire du mal \u00e0 soi-m\u00eame. Il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;une d\u00e9fense de la libert\u00e9 \u00e0 faire du mal aux autres. Cette d\u00e9fense de l&#8217;ind\u00e9fendable contre la d\u00e9fense des sans-d\u00e9fense est g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9e par la dissonance cognitive \u00a0: \u00a0une antinomie morale qui cherche \u00e0 se camoufler de soi-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: \u00a0Commuters Blast Vegan Posters For &#8216;Forcing Opinions On Others&#8217; The absurdity of this indignant and defensive reaction speaks volumes &#8230; But unlike smoking and alcoholism, which draw similar reactions when we advise quitting, this is not even a defense of the &#8220;freedom of choice&#8221; to hurt oneself. It is a defense of the freedom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/07\/18\/cognitive-dissonance-defending-the-indefensible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cognitive Dissonance: Defending the Indefensible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>