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I diagnose tongue-in-cheek

In Reply to: cognitive dissonance posted by Dave Hardman on May 23, 1997 at 12:42:20:

> Ever heard of cognitive dissonance, where people change their opinions in
> order to fit their behaviour? You started off with a moral viewpoint, but
> because you gave in and ate a burger you've now decided that we might as well
> let McDonald's & co get on with screwing the planet up. What a turnaround!
> Obviously you don't really want to be extinct otherwise why are you still
> here? Can't you accept that you were right first time around - McDonalds is
> crap and the fact that you ate a burger doesn't mean you have to revise
> your original opinion.

It rather appears to me that the original posting was not really meant to be serious.

'Cognitive dissonance' sounds wonderful, but I would tend to go for satire on this one.

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