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Originally Posted by noeticknight

Interesting post, enjoyed it. Petty and Cacioppo's "Elaboration Likelihood Model" (ELM) details two of the primary processing routes of reasoning. Peripheral route, in which a person relies on limited involvement, and makes executive judgments based on some arrangement of (trivial) persuasions. And the central route, which requires a person to utilize the highest forms of thought. Imo, the central is often underdeveloped and not often exercised by most good people concerning the above topics. Most people are willing to accept the things told them, or trained into them, by authority figures in their life. I believe you hit upon the key thing though...synergy

Thanks for the comments.