As far as almost any mortal in Cheliax knows, after all, that is exactly how cognition is supposed to work and the whole point of thinking!  First your brain decides what you would like to believe; and then, you go search for the reasons you are allowed to believe it!

If Asmodeus had promoted Esta to His 8th circle, Aspexia Rugatonn would have taken him carefully aside; and explained to Esta, and Esta alone, that this is not actually how thinking works.

Besides Aspexia Rugatonn, the only other humanoids in Golarion to figure out explicitly why not to do that, are a handful of Irorians in a Vudran temple who are treated with great suspicion for their unorthodox practice of passing around a +6 Wisdom headband in their daily meditations.

Somewhere on a vastly more distant planet with highly anomalous lunar eclipses, the actual majority of people who could correctly and rigorously explain in words what happens to a cognitive entity that starts thinking that way, are unusually attentive readers of Thellim's blog.

So not actually just a Cheliax problem.  But Cheliax does have it noticeably, if slightly, worse than usual.

(As far as almost any mortal in Cheliax knows, after all, that is exactly how cognition is supposed to work and the whole point of thinking!  First your brain decides what you would like to believe; and then, you go search for the reasons you are allowed to believe it!

If Asmodeus had promoted Esta to His 8th circle, Aspexia Rugatonn would have taken him carefully aside; and explained to Esta, and Esta alone, that this is not actually how thinking works.

Besides Aspexia Rugatonn, the only other humanoids in Golarion to figure out explicitly why not to do that, are a handful of Irorians in a Vudran temple who are treated with great suspicion for their unorthodox practice of passing around a +6 Wisdom headband in their daily meditations.

Somewhere on a vastly more distant planet with highly anomalous lunar eclipses, the actual majority of people who could correctly and rigorously explain in words what happens to a cognitive entity that starts thinking that way, are unusually attentive readers of Thellim's blog.

So not actually just a Cheliax problem.  But Cheliax does have it noticeably, if slightly, worse than usual.)

(As far as almost any mortal in Cheliax knows, after all, that is exactly how cognition is supposed to work and the whole point of thinking!  First your brain decides what you would like to believe; and then, you go search for the reasons you are allowed to believe it!

If Asmodeus had promoted Esta to His 8th circle, Aspexia Rugatonn would have taken him carefully aside; and explained to Esta, and Esta alone, that this is not actually how thinking works.

Besides Aspexia Rugatonn, the only other humanoids in Golarion to figure out explicitly why not to do that, are a handful of Irorians in a Vudran temple who are treated with great suspicion for their unorthodox practice of passing around a +6 Wisdom headband in their daily meditations.

Somewhere on a vastly more distant planet with highly anomalous lunar eclipses, the actual majority of people who could correctly and rigorously explain in words what happens to a cognitive entity that starts thinking that way, are unusually attentive readers of Thellim's blog.

So not actually just a Cheliax problem.  But Cheliax does have it noticeably, if slightly, worse than usual.)

(As far as almost any mortal in Cheliax knows, after all, that is exactly how cognition is supposed to work and the whole point of thinking!  First your brain decides what to believe; and then, you go search for the reasons you are allowed to believe it!

If Asmodeus had promoted Esta to His 8th circle, Aspexia Rugatonn would have taken him carefully aside; and explained to Esta, and Esta alone, that this is not actually how thinking works.

Besides Aspexia Rugatonn, the only other humanoids in Golarion to figure out explicitly why not to do that, are a handful of Irorians in a Vudran temple who are treated with great suspicion for their unorthodox practice of passing around a +6 Wisdom headband in their daily meditations.

Somewhere on a vastly more distant planet with highly anomalous lunar eclipses, the actual majority of people who could correctly and rigorously explain in words what happens to a cognitive entity that starts thinking that way, are unusually attentive readers of Thellim's blog.

So not actually just a Cheliax problem.  But Cheliax does have it noticeably, if slightly, worse than usual.)

(As far as almost any mortal in Cheliax knows, after all, that is exactly how cognition is supposed to work and the whole point of thinking!  First your brain decides what to believe; and then, you go search for acceptable reasons to believe it!

If Asmodeus had promoted Esta to His 8th circle, Aspexia Rugatonn would have taken him carefully aside; and explained to Esta, and Esta alone, that this is not actually how thinking works.

Besides Aspexia Rugatonn, the only other humanoids in Golarion to figure out explicitly why not to do that, are a handful of Irorians in a Vudran temple who are treated with great suspicion for their unorthodox practice of passing around a +6 Wisdom headband in their daily meditations.

Somewhere on a vastly more distant planet with highly anomalous lunar eclipses, the actual majority of people who could correctly and rigorously explain in words what happens to a cognitive entity that starts thinking that way, are unusually attentive readers of Thellim's blog.

So not actually just a Cheliax problem.  But Cheliax does have it noticeably, if slightly, worse than usual.)

(As far as almost any mortal in Cheliax knows, after all, that is exactly how cognition is supposed to work and the whole point of thinking!  First your brain decides what to believe; and then, you go search for acceptable reasons to believe it!

If Asmodeus had promoted Esta to His 8th circle, Aspexia Rugatonn would have taken him carefully aside; and explained to Esta, and Esta alone, that this is not actually how thinking works.

Besides Aspexia Rugatonn, the only other humanoids in Golarion to figure out explicitly why not to do that, are a handful of Irorians in a Vudran temple who are treated with great suspicion for their unorthodox practice of passing around a +6 Wisdom headband in their daily meditations.

Somewhere on a vastly more distant planet with highly anomalous lunar eclipses, the actual majority of people who could correctly and rigorously explain in words why that is not how thinking works, are unusually attentive readers of Thellim's blog.

So not actually just a Cheliax problem.  But Cheliax does have it noticeably, if slightly, worse than usual.)