Observation on observing
Most people don't observe. This observation (ha ha) has annoyed me all my life.
I'm not picking on other people; I constantly get annoyed at myself for failing to observe something I think I should have noticed.
People also fail to observe things they don't want to observe-- things that would make them uncomfortable.
This explains why most people don't notice that cops are bad guys, even with a seemingly infinite stream of irrefutable evidence being shoved in their faces on a daily basis by the behavior of cops themselves.
When the tendency to be unobservant is combined with the fanaticism to not see what you'd rather not see, it is almost guaranteed that people won't notice something really important.
Now, copsuckers might come back with the claim that I don't observe the good that cops do. If so, I have counter-evidence to refute their claim. I observe both sides, but to the copsuckers it appears biased against cops. That's because ethics itself is biased against cops. If you are observant, you'll notice this fact, even if you don't want to.
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Yes, to see things for what they really are, a person's programming would be challenged. They would experience cognitive dissonance. It creates stress to have your beliefs questioned too.
I have a knack for observing discrepancies or things disturbed and out of their usual order. I'll also watch people and their habits, and then that information becomes very useful later.
My children will come to me saying things like, "I cannot find my phone." Because of their usual habits, I can quickly find it though.
My BJJ instructor has a habit of putting his hand held match timer up on a column between matches. The school was frantically looking for the timer one day, and I told them to look on the column. It was of course there.
They are in that school way more than me, but they had not observed the instructor's regular habit as I had apparently? It wasn't a complicated riddle to solve. Some people are better at seeing such things than others I suppose.