The Enigma of Reason

We tend to produce the most lazy and biased argument we can upfront. And then we depend on the conversation or the interaction with other people to offload the cognitive labor to sorting out what's the best argument in the pool. People will if you give a person a chance to like answer a very difficult question, trick them into thinking that their answers are somebody else's answers. When it's their answer, they'll defend it to the death. But when they think that it's somebody else's answer, they'd see all the flaws in it.

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