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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's actually called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 and you deploy it to avoid processing thoughts and feelings that are better socially for you to pretend you don't understand. You're afraid of abandoning or being abandoned by your tribe, so you have to do everything and anything to avoid thinking about the vast cruelty and needless violence that you are participating in every day.