Calcified world views

I am continually amazed at the number of people who will not do what is in their own interest because doing this thing violates their own view of how the world should or does work.

It reminds me of the story of the man, with flood waters rising all around him, refused all aid until he drowned.

A more local one would be a person in a canoe moving towards a waterfall refused to use a paddle, because in his view of the world, paddles were not allowed. So, he went over the falls and died.

Cheerier notes later.