Jon Stewart of The Daily Show does a good job of pointing out the inconsistencies in people’s positions on two Constitutional Amendments in The Bill of Rights.

The hard part to understand is that neither side of the debate on one of the amendments is consistent with that side’s position on the other amendment.

As described in the book How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer, now that each side has decided how they feel about the two amendments, they need to figure out why they made the decision they made. The decision is based on your gut feeling, and then you make up rationalizations to explain it. So let’s hear the rationalization for how you decide one way one one amendment, but decide the opposite way on the other amendment. I want to hear this so I can figure out why I take the positions I do on these amendments. I at least recognize my cognitive dissonance even if I don’t know what to do with it.