Kevin's Bacon on Nostr: It might also be that certain parts of their brain are acting rational from their ...

It might also be that certain parts of their brain are acting rational from their limited scope. A lack of intellectual honesty is effectively a barrier to information flow. The mind is composed of pieces that operate in conjunction to perform logical and processual tasks. Operating on bad info can result in inefficient and seemingly illogical outcomes. Sometimes people just need to realize that what is really blocking them is their failure to think, not their failure to not drink.

I made an economics budget line and indifference curve diagram for my friend yesterday about why it is actually completely rational from a certain point of view (in her case, a short term thinking point of view) why she will not work on a learning project if her laptop is set aside instead of on her desk, even though she would be happier to have gotten it out and worked on it a while, yet she will start it if the laptop is already out. There is an initial cost that is great enough to not want to move and expend the energy, yet that cost reduces to very little once the laptop is out and the additional reward of doing the work becomes manifest. It would be an additional burden if there was a cost to even remembering that you have a project to work on and where the laptop is. People who drink alcohol frequently have similar costs that they are unwilling to bear or unaware that it is of prime importance or would be, had they taken a step back and considered from another point of view, often a longer time horizon.

You probably know all this, it's just interesting for me to talk about haha