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I've noticed what I think is the strongest source of Russell conjugations in my life: road rage, specifically with regard to cutting off people. It's amazing how strongly I feel it, even after I've noted the hypocrisy in myself. It's just the first and most basic instinct I feel in any of these situations. And I've even noticed a gendered component of how I think, informed by the political climate.
I merge into the lane, because I need to get into that lane, but they're stubbornly not letting me in.
He cuts me off, because he's a selfish dick who thinks he's a better driver than me and thinks I suck as a driver.
She cuts me off because she thinks that I'm a patriarchal male who thinks he's entitled to the road, which ultimately leads to her acting like an entitled bitch.
I try to fight this by reverse-Russelling everyone who behaves like a dick. You know how the fundamental attribution error works? "I am having a bad day, and he's just a dick"? Well, when someone's being an inconsiderate dick, I tell myself they are having a bad day.
I do that, too, but I guess I only do that when they're really acting like a dick, like zipping between lanes on the highway, narrowly cutting people off, going 100mph. I tell myself maybe his wife is having a baby, and he needs to get to the hospital.
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