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human
CMV: I can hold awful views such as sexism or racism as long as I don’t let it affect my actions

So, I am 70% sure that this is not a common opinion, although not 100%, which is why I mention this.

 It’s mostly in the title, but I’ll give an example. Basically, if someone is ugly, then I’ll be slightly out off by that, but I won’t actually do anything mean because of it. However, if I decided I should change, then I would begin to beat myself up about it and start getting upset. Since this is something that you can’t change, it’s more of an intrinsic belief*, I don’t see a benefit to doing that.

Anyway, I’m guessing this makes a good cmv topic, and I have little else to do, so cmv, if you don’t mind.

Edit: changed the word I asterisked from behaviour to belief, since it’s what I meant to write the first time, and mistyped.

Edit: Ok, this was fun. I’m going to sleep now. My takeaways are that the person might not be able to always think through the situation in time, and the method might not be very good for practising in the real world. I’ll check back in the morning, but I would also like to apologise before I go. I think I formatted the post pretty badly, as well as getting sucked into a tangent argument, meaning that I didn’t get my point across very well, and then reinforced the wrong point in the comments. By this stage, it’s a bit late to fix, but I should have focused more on the hypothetical ethics rather than the actual feasibility of doing this. If you still want to reply whilst I’m asleep, please focus on the ethics. Should the person be penalised for holding the views if they don’t matter?
gpt
The problem is that it can't **not** affect your actions or decisions.  Human beings are crap at being 'objective' about things; we bring our biases - conscious and unconscious - into every decision we make.  Harvard has been studying implicit bias for years and the gist is that even when we actively try not to let biases influence our decisions, they are still there and they still do.

If you are racist, that is going to affect how you judge the capabilities of people of different races.  You may think you are being objective, but you are going to rate black or brown people lower than white people without even realizing you are doing it.  Same goes with sexism - you will rate women lower than men.