A weighty issue

So, I noticed that we all do an odd thing when we are talking about considering two different issues or items, such as the legalization of whale watching or items such as hamster cage wood chips. The first thing we do for dramatic effect is to put out both our hands and move them consecutively up and down motioning a very primitive scale. It's not like the 80's anymore or anything we have spring scales and digital scales. However, it is slightly less dramatic to motion placing on object on a rectangle then placing another. So we all use the old school lady of justice type scale. Then one object goes up and one goes down. The one at the top we always present as the better issue. However, according to really the laws of values by scales it should be the one that is lower that we choose. It’s like the sesame street episode where Ernie and Bert as splitting up cherries. And Ernie keeps eating the cherries to make the scale even. You want the heavier one the one with more. However, people always choose the higher one. What is it? are lighter things cooler than heavy stuff? No one after doing hand motion scales says yes I'm choosing this one down here. But if they did they would be freaking right according to their very logical method of weighing things to make a decision. Why people don't critically think about what they are doing? If they did they would see that they are idiots most of the time, which isn't really that bad. You have more fun that way.