A few months ago there was a post on the supposition that most people do things or believe things on the basis that they “feel” good, even though most of us claim that it is pure logic that drives our views. There was even a scientific name for this approach. Can anyone direct me to the post, or shed some more light on this? It is pretty vital to some work I am doing on motivation theories.
I’ll take ‘Liberalism’ for $100 Alec.
Thank you, but that name doesn’t sound scientific enough for my purposes. Anyways, I am sure that conservatives also get their kicks somehow. Condemning people who don’t have the same views as your own also feels kind of good.
Damn, I forgot to put one of these 
guys in after my post. Anyway you are right of course…opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. It makes the world more fun I think.
Best of luck on your research. I have also heard of the symptoms you have described but I am clueless about its proper medical name. Could google help?
Probably not the term you’re looking for, but sounds like the “Pleasure/Pain principle,” which basically says the two reasons we do anything are to gain pleasure and to avoid pain.
Why does everyone always leave off the most important part about opinions? Here’s the whole thing (as was relayed to me by my HS baseball coach):
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and they stink.
I believe the term is psychological hedonism…also check out psycological egoism - you might want to do a search. If I am correct it is kind of an offshoot of utilitarianism.
Thanks. I followed tje links to Psychological Hedonism and found the term “Emotivism”. I then searched on STO and found that Vitus979 started off a thread in November. It says that if we say something is good we are basically saying “Yippee for it”, expressing an emotional response and nothing more. Basically Emotivism claims that, in disputes about basic moral principles, we can’t appeal to reason but only to emotion. If I look at the lack of any conclusions to the many arguments in the Lavender Room, emotivism is alive and well.