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The second-best guess after the disabled known-irrational solution is often more interesting than "do nothing". On the other hand, "do nothing", when it's the way to go, may be hard to accept for a number of reasons (it can be seen as a signal of not caring, or of excessive loyalty to your position of disbelieving). This is a dangerous pressure, one that can push you to accept a different dogma in place of the discarded one just to fill the gap.
Soft reminder: This is just theory-chat and it has nothing to do with me or my post.
Part of the problem is that some maps don't keep track of second-best solutions. Namely, a common irrational behavior is to chuck everything that doesn't match or adhere to principal dogma. The problem is not so much that there needs to be a way to choose a second-best. The problem is what happens when there is no second best.
I am unable to parse, "This". What are you referring to? As in, what is a dangerous pressure?
The pressure to "do something", in particular to accept a system of beliefs that promotes a particular "something", when for all you know you should just "stay there".
Ah, gotcha. That makes sense.