Comment by pasquinelli

it's not that they're bad at logic in general, it's that the "protecting the children" part gets them emotionally reactive, which bypasses logic. same thing happens when you tell a man who's emotionally reactive about his masculinity that soy will give him tits, just those words are enough to shut down his thinking.

people are plenty good at systems thinking. if we made them better at it, their emotional immaturity would still bypass it.