What interferes with people's ability for logic and reason?

The common factor here is child abuse. For example, In Christian countries like this one children are often beaten if they don't go to church. Even I wasn't given a choice at age 6 whether I went to church or not. But, by age 8 or 9 I complained enough so often I didn't have to go to church anymore because my parents were ministers of a mystical Christian Church from the time I was 6 to 12 years old. But, to counter all this my father was also a valedictorian of his High School in Seattle and also an Electrician where if you are not logical and rational every day you are soon dead. Being methodical, logical and rational is the ONLY way you are going to stay alive long term if you are an electrician. And then my father trained me in this trade from about age 12 to age 17 summers mostly by working in his Electrical Contracting business because he was an Electrical Contractor by then.

When there isn't enough logic and reason in someone's life they tend to count on the wrong things in a pinch and then often people are vulnerable to all sorts of problems including early death before their times because they become naive and vulnerable by counting on the wrong things.

My upbringing was paradoxical in many ways but I learned through suffering to count on logic, Reason, pragmatism and common sense because otherwise I would have died many many times growing up. And as it was I almost died many times growing up anyway.

But, my more naive and silly friends often died from this naive and silly condition of being children whereas I lived because I was enough like my father to be a survivor too.

So, here I am still going strong at age 72 just like my pioneer forebears who came to the U.S. in 1725.
My great grandfather was a Captain in the northern Army in the Civil War out of Kansas and he lived into his 90s until around the beginning of World War II even though he was born in the 1840s. My Great Grandmother his wife lived until she was 105 in Kansas until the early 1950s by the way. Unfortunately, because I was in California I never met them but likely meeting someone over 100 years old would have been scary for a child under about 5 years of age if I met my great grandmother. But, I knew all my grandparents between 1950 and whenever they died between around 1960 to 1975. Most of my grandparents were born between the 1870s and the end of the 1880s. My last Grandparent passed away in 1978 at age 90 that was born in 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.