• Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nz
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      5 days ago

      If half of all people aren’t rational, then there’s no use making policy decisions based on what a rational person would think. The law should protect everyone.

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          4 days ago

          There’s a push for medical suicide for people with severe illness. People famously jumped to their deaths from the world trade center rather than burn alive. Rationality is only a point if view. You can rationalize decisions as much as you like but there is no such thing as right or wrong.

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          5 days ago

          Your right, no one has any rationality at all which is why we live in a world where so much stuff actually gets done.

          Why is someone with deep wisdom and insights such as yourself wasting their time here on lemmy?

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            What stuff is “getting done” exactly? Is stuff that people want, but ultimately they have irrational reasons for wanting it.

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      5 days ago

      Ah yes, the famous adage, “the only rational people are in my specific age and demographic bracket. Everyone else is fucking insane”