[elicksaur]

Thank you for phrasing it like that. I think maybe my hang up is that the author doesn’t allow that different people and groups can have different baselines and update responses. Implicitly it seems that if everyone is perfectly rational, all responses to an event would be the same, but that’s not really true due to our subjective human experience. In the shooting example the quote came from, the Left and Right he caricatures have different priors, knowledge, experiences, and motivations than the author, someone who likes to think of themselves as rational and aloof of politics. Of course they’re going to have a different response, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re acting irrationally.