The reverse argument is valid, too: the less a participant engages in the discussion, the less is the impact of the group's opinions and arguments on one's own preferences.
But is disobedience really a way to do this?" Striking a characteristically inquisitive yet uncompromising stance, he asked whether such moves were aimed at "true renewal," or "do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the church in accordance with one's own preferences and ideas?" Instead, the pope said, Christ's concern "was for true obedience, as opposed to human caprice".
It invites reflection on how one's own preferences affect the distribution of benefits and burdens within a relationship.
It follow that he ought to conform, since, other things being equal, one ought to do what answers both to one's own preferences and to those of other people.
The only remedy here is to stay quiet and keep one's own preferences to oneself.
Some emphasize the importance of internal, psychological enabling conditions as well, for example the ability to assess one's own preferences and imagine life otherwise (Meyers 2002, 168; Cudd 2006, 234 235; MacKenzie 1999).
Upon reading the article, the evidence seems incontrovertible -- nobody knows one's own preferences better than himself, and relatives' attempts to divine them through gift giving often result in lost utility and suboptimal outcomes.
Behavioral studies find that these effects persist even when behavior is unobservable (e.g., littering when nobody is around) and when the social information is not particularly informative to one's own preferences (e.g., towel recycling).
The one outlier is the Sixth Circuit, thanks to a decision by Judge Jeffrey Sutton that relied on Sutton's own preference for legislative outcomes and a 1971 Supreme Court order, in the case of Baker v. Nelson, dismissing an appeal of an early-marriage case "for want of a substantial federal question".
How one feels about this depends at least partly on one's own political preference.
