We can choose preferences by whatever means we can construct an excuse for that

We can choose preferences by whatever means we can construct an excuse for that choice, but we can only resolve conflicts by materialist meas.

This is the difference. Idealists and supernaturalists only see the head of the coin not the tail: a great deal of cooperation between people who have material responsibilities fails.

People who avoid the materialist rarely if ever have any responsibilities of consequence.

Their folly is an example of conspicuous consumption: a luxury good mad possible by materialists.

Or put simply: “silly women can believe silly things, but men who may die in war, hunt, and labor, have no luxury of folly.”