Yes, I already try to adhere to that. The reason I came to LW to ask around was because I just wanted to make a succinct reply containing some relevant reading materials and a short summary of the error going on. Emotions do play a significant role in human cognition, and we are not by a long stretch good Bayesian reasoners. But there's no special reason why we have to treat emotions and our current modes of cognition as if they are innately good or fundamentally not understandable. Some evidence supports this as mentioned in many of the comments above. I'm very grateful to have LW as a resource when it comes to cases like this. I think my own explanation of all of the above would probably have been mostly "correct" but horribly imprecise and nebulously flowing around lots of peripheral topics that won't directly bear any fruit.