I think he had the sunken cost fallacy.

When cognitive dissonance shows up because certain ideas, when steel manned to an extreme, which happens the further you take them, you have a few options.

1. Try to ignore that feeling, quickly shut that line of conversation down and suppress whatever feeling of discomfort you have; this is what happens early on in cognitive dissonance, but once someone goes too far, this is rarely merely what they do, instead moving on to option

2. Doubling, tirpling, quadrupuling down. If you build too much of your identity and your entire worldview upon an idea, and that idea is threatened, you're at risk of having a total identity crisis. You then have to think about ways you've been wrong and your wrongness has wronged others. You don't want to face that. Like an SJW, if they actually reflected on all the hatred they've spewed towards innocent family members because they were so bought into an idea, some wouldn't be able to take it, thus the doubling, tripling, quadrupuling down, because you need something powerful to sustain the cognitive dissonance rather than merely ignoring it.

3. Reassess your values and thoughts. This is the least chosen option regardless of political, ideological standings. It's the last thing people will prefer to do.

And the further into a sunken cost belief system, the less likely this option becomes.

I believe when people told Impossible1 that some of his ideas were too all encompassing and lacked nuance, even though he's 90% right on feminism, but just needs to dial it back and bring about nuance, his pavlovian reaction of needing to be right drove him to steelman himself into sunken cost further and further until his already exaggerated ideas were twisted beyond recogonition.

I'm not his judge, I'm simply playing at armchair psychiatrist, based on a guess. The truth could be any number of things including a troll. I just wish he wouldn't have felt that he needed to view things like "either me or them".

I don't know why people want to troll this place. This place is nicer to it's trolls than Reddit is to it's beloved people.

It's like, sure you can troll us, but you really don't know how valuable a place like this is on the internet is anymore.

It's like dragging a muddy boot across a nice rug....you're really just harming yourself and it's shame to see something nice get screwed up for yourself because you failed to see the value in it.

The worst people do here is call you a retarded faggot. That's just normal conversation and speak among friend groups where I grew up.

If you never had a friend group where you could call each other retarded faggots, I shed a tiny tear for you, like some sort of faggy retard.

I think he had the sunken cost fallacy.

When cognitive dissonance shows up because certain ideas, when steel manned to an extreme, which happens the further you take them, you have a few options.

1. Try to ignore that feeling, quickly shut that line of conversation down and suppress whatever feeling of discomfort you have; this is what happens early on in cognitive dissonance, but once someone goes too far, this is rarely merely what they do, instead moving on to option

2. Doubling, tirpling, quadrupuling down. If you build too much of your identity and your entire worldview upon an idea, and that idea is threatened, you're at risk of having a total identity crisis. You then have to think about ways you've been wrong and your wrongness has wronged others. You don't want to face that. Like an SJW, if they actually reflected on all the hatred they've spewed towards innocent family members because they were so bought into an idea, some wouldn't be able to take it, thus the doubling, tripling, quadrupuling down, because you need something powerful to sustain the cognitive dissonance rather than merely ignoring it.

3. Reassess your values and thoughts. This is the least chosen option regardless of political, ideological standings. It's the last thing people will prefer to do.

And the further into a sunken cost belief system, the less likely this option becomes.

I believe when people told Impossible1 that some of his ideas were too all encompassing and lacked nuance, even though he's 90% right on feminism, but just needs to dial it back and bring about nuance, his pavlovian reaction of needing to be right drove him to steelman himself into sunken cost further and further until his already exaggerated ideas were twisted beyond recogonition.

I'm not his judge, I'm simply playing at armchair psychiatrist, based on a guess. The truth could be any number of things including a troll. I just wish he wouldn't have felt that he needed to view things like "either me or them".

I don't know why people want to troll this place. This place is nicer to it's trolls than Reddit is to it's beloved people.

It's like, sure you can troll us, but you really don't know how valuable a place like this is on the internet is anymore.

It's like dragging a muddy boot across a nice rug....you're really just harming yourself and it's shame to see something nice get screwed up.

The worst people do here is call you a retarded faggot. That's just normal conversation and speak among friend groups where I grew up.

If you never had a friend group where you could call each other retarded faggots, I feel sorry for you.