It's a good mental practice to always be aware that stated intentions and actual reasons are entirely separate things.
They do sometimes, mostly by chance, coincide.
The advanced level of this is to be aware this applies even to your own actions.
They do sometimes, mostly by chance, coincide.
The advanced level of this is to be aware this applies even to your own actions.
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda...
A great book to realize that the reasons you give for what you do are not the real reasons is Strangers to Ourselves
https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Ourselves-Discovering-Adapt...
May have to read Strangers to Ourselves as well.
I believe GP is referring to the fact that the true aim of much of this legislation had nothing to do with protecting kids from the beginning. They use that rhetoric because it's easy to get people on board and much more difficult to explain the real world implications for security.
Separately, the honest activists are often lying to themselves, in the sense that their real motives are not what the they tell themselves and others.