I think you overestimate how controversial the poly thing would be. Talking about it is almost certainly uncontroversial; advocating it would be somewhat dicey. I think you should do it.
while i'm interested in the poly thing, i'm also very concerned and interested in how to solve what i think is one of the largest problems facing the world. so i have to take that into account too, though on a day-to-day level, i'd probably be more interested in and get more out of the poly paper. and while the rationalization of cognitive dissonance is much more important a topic, i'm not sure i would actually make much headway in solving the problem. so yeah, i donno.
I don't think you can make headway on solving the problems that people are prone to without running experiments. i.e. you'd need to be able to come up with a hypothesis about something that might cause people to behave better, then run an experiment to test it. Then you'd need to rinse, wash, repeat a lot to find what does and doesn't work.
Is your question about cognitive dissonance fundamentally different from "why do people do bad things, given that most people don't think of themselves as bad people"? That's a very extensively studied question, and I doubt that you're in a particularly good position to tackle it.
I fyour question is interestingly different from that one, can you explain how?
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while i'm interested in the poly thing, i'm also very concerned and interested in how to solve what i think is one of the largest problems facing the world. so i have to take that into account too, though on a day-to-day level, i'd probably be more interested in and get more out of the poly paper. and while the rationalization of cognitive dissonance is much more important a topic, i'm not sure i would actually make much headway in solving the problem. so yeah, i donno.
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I fyour question is interestingly different from that one, can you explain how?
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