Whether or not you are truth seeking or not depends on your own goals and not whether you presume that the other side engages in deception and evasion.
Using strategies that still work when some people act adverserial with you and try to deceive you is in line with being rational.
Using strategies that still work when some people act adverserial with you and try to deceive you is in line with being rational.
I think this gets close to the insight that motivated my post: a part of ourselves often tries to curl into a ball and deny reality to avoid emotional stress, interacting with that part of you is kind of adversarial.
Whether or not you are truth seeking or not depends on your own goals and not whether you presume that the other side engages in deception and evasion.
Using strategies that still work when some people act adverserial with you and try to deceive you is in line with being rational.
I think this gets close to the insight that motivated my post: a part of ourselves often tries to curl into a ball and deny reality to avoid emotional stress, interacting with that part of you is kind of adversarial.