Quote Of The Day For Iliasm...

I was looking at this more from the straightforward viewpoint of denial of the obvious because it's too emotionally painful... or inconvenient...

From a more philosophical viewpoint, our every interaction has a selfish basis, as we can only think of things from our own viewpoint, and as much as we may attempt to empathize, we can only do so within our own narrow field of experience. Of course we use reason to influence others to our point of view... there is little point applying it to the inanimate or the non sentient.

I think their point was that, you could assume that - at least to ourselves - we would want an accurate story that reflected reality because that would benefit us in some utilitarian sense. People do not do this, and it was describing social mechanisms (reasons) for this peculiar behavior. That is to say, we have bias and irrationality built-in, for social advantage.

Not sure if you consider them people or not... but it would appear you have never met a philosopher...

Fantastic, great fun. Actually, I'm a fan of both Nietzsche and Montaigne. I know, a strange combo.