triggers help the mind make decisions quickly

they are not merely useful
but often necessary for survival

the connectionists point to
hysteresis in the dynamics of the attraction basins
in conceptual evolution
and threshold catastrophes

a darwinist would point out
"fire, hot!"

however
triggers can be programmed through training
to respond to words

we can learn to form strong and sudden reactions
to the audial or visual recognition
of linguistic cues

this too can support survival
but rarely does it affect the fitness of the organism

instead
it often supports the persistence of a worldview

worldview challenges are logical challenges

they oppose the learned mimicry of deduction
one has accepted and developed internally
to structure one's perception of the world

a scientific worldview must accept that challenges will come
and develop means for evaluating challenges
within the context of the input domain (sensory perceptions)

a convergent term for this
taken from several professions
is "metaprogramming"

fundamentalist worldviews
though
use avoidance mechanisms to prohibit
logical challenges to the fundamentalist worldview

that is where triggers become evil

triggers can launch these avoidance mechanisms

beware people who overuse terms of contempt
*****
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liberal
crank
spic
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jock
fundamentalist

they may be training avoidances
through long term potentiation

and avoidance distortions regularly turn violent

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