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never understand what it is about Israel that makes people lose their mindsAvailability heuristic [1].
Flat earthers and folks deep in their small-country national politics do the same thing, overestimating the causal weight of the thing they’re obsessing about to any effect.
The useful takeaway is to recognize when you do it in smaller doses. What’s the first explanation you tend to have a hunch for explaining phenomena which are too diverse to be reasonably explained by a single factor.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
