That, and the fact that when making decisions, it’s *really important* to have non-subjective reasons—or if you have subjective reasons, you still have objective reasons why they matter, like “if I don’t like someone on a personal level, I really shouldn’t spend the rest of my life with them” in dating.
So people are used to a mode of thought where a subjective opinion means “you’re not done explaining”/”you haven’t spent enough mental effort on the problem,” and they engage the—honestly, very productive, very healthy—same mechanisms they use when justifying a command decision. It just happens to be mis-applied in this case.
That, and the fact that when making decisions, it’s *really important* to have non-subjective reasons—or if you have subjective reasons, you still have objective reasons why they matter, like “if I don’t like someone on a personal level, I really shouldn’t spend the rest of my life with them” in dating.
So people are used to a mode of thought where a subjective opinion means “you’re not done explaining”/”you haven’t spent enough mental effort on the problem,” and they engage the—honestly, very productive, very healthy—same mechanisms they use when justifying a command decision. It just happens to be mis-applied in this case.