An Argument Against “Moral Character” by Travis B. #9

The response set and the evaluation of the context-stimulus involve two different primary functions. The first is to justify the action (emotional-response) that resulted whereas the second is to justify the evaluation (automatic thought). Unfortunately both are mere reflections of how we are responding to the stimulus. Information pertaining to our evaluation of the stimulus is thus forward delimited by this bias in a self-perpetuating cycle of self-congratulatory and thus indulgent self-vindication.