Unfortunately, that is most human thinking in general. That's why good education and cultural institutions that can overcome those cognitive biases, like science broadly speaking, are so important. It's okay to be shitty post-hoc reasoners (#bornthisway), we are just meat with electricity running through it after all, but we can aspire to better than celebrating and entrenching power in that kind of ignorance.
"It sounds about right, so it must be right!" - most politics under Liberalism
Unfortunately, that is most human thinking in general. That's why good education and cultural institutions that can overcome those cognitive biases, like science broadly speaking, are so important. It's okay to be shitty post-hoc reasoners (#bornthisway), we are just meat with electricity running through it after all, but we can aspire to better than celebrating and entrenching power in that kind of ignorance.