> The bedroom is the one refuge from the state/government and you can bet any attempts to take that intimacy away are going to be met with high resistance.

I can assure you, this is not the prevailing reason nor do most adults view the world through this lense.

It's purely an emotional knee-jerk, the same as when you see nuclear reactor plans being turned down because of public outcry.

There are some things the public is exuberantly irrational about where any deviation will cause business failure.

The principle of charity demands when at first glance you want to attribute irrationality to an opponent you should instead seek to understand their motivations instead of simply dismissing them as 'irrational'

There are good reasons for nuclear power but it's not irrational to say nuclear power poses risks. The public simply calculates a different expected value in the unlikely event of a problem because the outrage produced by such an event would be so high.

Also, It doesn't have to be a conscious lens for it to have an effect on norms/behavior

> The principle of charity demands when at first glance you want to attribute irrationality to an opponent you should instead seek to understand their motivations instead of simply dismissing them as 'irrational'

I'm speaking of the U.S.A. Foundations never go away and the U.S.A was founded on puritan values, i.e shameism. There is no motivation, it's a rooted tradition that hasn't been uprooted yet.

> There are good reasons for nuclear power but it's not irrational to say nuclear power poses risks. The public simply calculates a different expected value in the unlikely event of a problem because the outrage produced by such an event would be so high.

This topic, nuclear vs. similarly-outputting-source, has been beaten to death. Nuclear power is one of the less dangerous, yet high output, sources of energy. The public "eyeballs" their calculations with old data, anecdotes, and inconsistencies.

> Also, It doesn't have to be a conscious lens for it to have an effect on norms/behavior

Yes, but then it starts to sway towards irrationality. When you can no longer understand the basis for your actions, how can you figure out if they're rational or not?

If you don't know your reasons or logic, then by simplification your actions are irrational.