@Jebediah,
Jebediah;139148 wrote:Sure. But people don't object to statements like "people enjoy sex" or even "men like women".
Both of those are importantly different in that no quantifier is specified (i.e., "everyone" is not specified). However, if the quantifier were added, both would be false. And people do object to such things. Go to a gay pride meeting and say the second one, and see if there are any objections to the claim.
Jebediah;139148 wrote: If it's a basic part of human nature it's not objectionable to say "everyone".
If that were true I would not now be objecting to what has been stated in this thread.
I want to thank you for actually producing evidence of something. However, it is not even close to showing that everyone is hypocritical. First, it uses only 26 subjects, and then:
"Two subjects in Condition 1 were removed from analysis for acting altruistically or using the randomizer..."
In other words, according to the study, not everyone was hypocritical, even among their small sample of 26 people. And that is my point; although it may be that
most people are hypocritical or inconsistent, that does not justify the claim that
everyone is. I have no objections to someone claiming that most people are hypocritical or inconsistent, as that conforms to my experience. But I do object to the claim that everyone is, which does not seem to conform to my experience. (I write "seem to conform" for the obvious reason that I do not know all the thoughts of those people with whom I am acquainted.)