A partisan's (or an ideologue's) assessment of a situation doesn't depend on the situation. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My grandmother's heuristic: if people eat the same they look the same... and have similar genetic makeup

We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We feel responsible for the good stuff, but not for the bad.

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind’s flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality — without exploiting them for fun and profit.