Homosexual relationships and marriage are now widely accepted, I mean come on “it’s the current year.” In the year 2000 only 20% of conservatives supported gay marriage, 20 years later 50% of conservatives support gay marriage. That’s quite a change. And again, it points to a flaw in the NPC model where people rarely change their beliefs. This time we are going to posit that on many political issues NPCs don’t even have individual beliefs, instead they outsource their beliefs to what is commonly accepted by their tribe and society at large (“I believe what my tribe believes, I am a good boy”).
So, when there is a society wide change (usually top-down) most people accept the change and update their opinions.
We see then that changed opinions come temporarily through personal pressure (guilt) and permanently though social pressure (conforming to norms) rather than through rational argument.
Summary
- Belief-outsourced-to-the-tribe: NPCs conform to their tribe’s / society’s norms, “I mean come on, it’s the current year”
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