Editing Principle Incomprehension

[[File:Twitter Screenshot - Women Reproductive Rights Obsession.png|thumb|alt=The original tweet is `women are actually so brainwashed into being obsessed with "reproductive rights"  why is a family oriented indian mother of a toddler whose only dream since she was 16 was to become a SAHM on the side of "reproductive rights"`|A typical example of principle incomprehension]]

[[Principle Incomprehension]] is the inability to detect principled actions in others. Usually, people make this claim by saying they don't understand why someone would support a thing that they have no or negative interest in. The most common example is:

<blockquote>Poor people keep acting against their own interest by voting for tax cuts</blockquote>

But it's much less likely that these people are rationally evaluating all the possibilities and deciding that tax cuts are the optimal choice. Instead, they are probably [[wikipedia:The_Happiness_Hypothesis#Ch.1:_The_divided_self|just going with what they believe is right]] and after some degree of certainty, [[Principles Are Compressed Images Of Reality|that is what a  principle is]].