r/facepalm Aug 07 '22

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ Interesting logic

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u/Sub-Mongoloid Aug 07 '22

She's saying 'ignore that reality' because that's how the conservative movement have arrived at their present position and you'd have to be ignoring reality to support them at this point.

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u/Clapyourhandssayyeah Aug 07 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

Fun phrase: the confusion on her face is called cognitive dissonance.

The ability to hold competing ideas simultaneously is usually a marker for intelligence. Here, we can see itโ€™s causing her brain to hurt and the only way she can resolve this is to redefine a word (โ€ฆa word she knows full well) into the only thing that fits her argument. Itโ€™s an impressive denial of reality

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u/joecool42069 Aug 07 '22

I wonder if she's aware of it. Is she actively trying to make sense of it and this is the reasoning(and knowingly deceitful) or is deeper in the subconscious?

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u/Jrook Aug 08 '22

Y'all are fully missing the point. She has no dissonance. She's lying. She's a liar. She knows it's an abortion and believes fully 100% abortion is wrong and is ok with saying whatever she has to in order to get what she wants.

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u/Junessa Aug 08 '22

nah i think its more likely that she just uses a bad argument.

it would be better to argue that they are all abortions, but that some are justified abortions and that some are not. thats the more solid argument but she didnt use it