reflexive, reactionary, unthinking, irrational, unreasoned, rational, hasty, misguided, shortsighted, reactionism, blinkered, reflex, myopic, wrongheaded, politically correct, pavlovian, posturing, reactive, alarmist, simplistic, cynical, idiotic, flippant, hysterical, craven, jingoistic, dogmatic, fatuous, mindless, reductio ad absurdum, overreaction, unreflective, fuddle, pandering, moronic, illogical, laissez faire, unthoughtful, overreacting, dismissive, demagoguery, pollyannaish, defensiveness, sensible, panicky, smacks, mealymouthed, substanceless, unenlightening, ahistorical, political correctness, tu quoque, defeatist, hyperbolic, partitionist, claptrap, unwarranted, unwisdom, demagogical, nonsense, boneheaded, glib, impulsive, scapegoating, superficial, vehement, hyperbole, sanctimonious, lemming, ethnocentric, speciesist, cavalier, herd instinct, obstreperousness, inane, thoughtless, exclusionist, nativist, blindly, predictable, nonsequitur, moralistic, illiberal, hypocritical, fatalist, subjectivism, wishful thinking, brainless, reacting, disingenuous, pusillanimous, conversative, meanspirited, foolish, wimpish, preemptive, gutless, copout, uncritical, faddish, paternalistic, underreact

physiological reaction

knee-jerk reflex, patellar reflex