> Reasonable people" are extreme outliers — they're people who will take raw facts, explore their implications, and then use those implications to argue themselves into having different political beliefs, grinding the facts against their mental toolkit until the mental toolkit is what gets broken and reshaped. They're people who are willing to accept and internalize "repugnant conclusions" if they're inescapable due to the facts at hand; without first requiring a lens through which the conclusion can be made non-repugnant to them.
If I could offer a different perspective: reasonable people are people who understand and see their own irrationality for what it is. There is no process of breaking and reshaping, they simply see their broader thought pattern in a way that is unchanging. While different phases of thought come and go (along with political beliefs that follow), reasonable people understand the temporal nature of their current configuration and the inherent irrationality of the world and themselves. Out of this they create an unshakeable sense of direction for themselves that transcends any attempts to sidetrack it
If I could offer a different perspective: reasonable people are people who understand and see their own irrationality for what it is. There is no process of breaking and reshaping, they simply see their broader thought pattern in a way that is unchanging. While different phases of thought come and go (along with political beliefs that follow), reasonable people understand the temporal nature of their current configuration and the inherent irrationality of the world and themselves. Out of this they create an unshakeable sense of direction for themselves that transcends any attempts to sidetrack it