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you all already know this but i need to rant. spent the past week on that site trolling them and a lot of people are always wondering wtf is wrong with these people. well that's the answer. they literally have the minds of children.

the way they talk about everything. everything is presented at a child-like level. here is quick example of when they are confroned with 'racism': https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/o8ag9r/heads_up/h33prs4/?context=3

their only rebuttal to the mildest of truths is 'you're a mean asshole!' and then some guy who realises it's true but tries to rationalise it away with 'doggies :)' and gets it completely wrong, but so long as he can avoid the mean truth then it makes him feel safe and okay.

everything is doggies and superheros and funny jokes and nice stuff to these people. they are completely and totally infantilised. i guess the next question is why they never grow up into adults? well you would have to blame their parents. clearly they are over coddled and it seems that if this isn't removed during puberty when most teens reach a 'rebellious' stage and test boundaries and learn from those tests, they never learn thereafter and remain forever in their pre-teen mindset.

you all already know this but i need to rant. spent the past week on that site trolling them and a lot of people are always wondering wtf is wrong with these people. well that's the answer. they literally have the minds of children. the way they talk about everything. everything is presented at a child-like level. here is quick example of when they are confroned with 'racism': https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/o8ag9r/heads_up/h33prs4/?context=3 their only rebuttal to the mildest of truths is 'you're a mean asshole!' and then some guy who realises it's true but tries to rationalise it away with 'doggies :)' and gets it completely wrong, but so long as he can avoid the mean truth then it makes him feel safe and okay. everything is doggies and superheros and funny jokes and nice stuff to these people. they are completely and totally infantilised. i guess the next question is why they never grow up into adults? well you would have to blame their parents. clearly they are over coddled and it seems that if this isn't removed during puberty when most teens reach a 'rebellious' stage and test boundaries and learn from those tests, they never learn thereafter and remain forever in their pre-teen mindset.

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You summed it up yourself, they are mentally infantile. They have the moral development of a child.

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Lawrence-Kohlbergs-Six-Stages-of-Moral-Development

Developed adult males are generally at the top tiers of moral development, able to argue in terms of abstract principles. Someone less developed cannot do this, morality to the typical reddit midwit would consist of appealing to authority or consensus (law and order morality, good boy morality on the chart), and someone with low moral development (your typical urban chimp) will view morality only in terms of self-interest and avoiding punishment (ie it's right to steal a TV because my family doesn't have one and I won't get caught anyway).

The reddit midwit has no understanding of higher reasoning. Since their entire moral framework consists of appealing to the current consensus narrative it means that there is no space for critical thinking or outside thinking. It also means that what is moral to them can be changed and flipped at any moment without cognitive dissonance. They can quite happily believe in a moral position they found reprehensible only recently before.