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Killing innocent, helpless people IS irrational. Period

• mercurial 11y ago
  It's irrational if you do it for kicks. It's rational if you expect a strategic advantage for your group/nation-state out of it. Whether it is moral to do is an entirely different discussion.
• threeseed 11y ago
  It's not irrational at all. If your goal is to terrify a nation in order to pressure it to change its foreign policy then it is quite rational. And there are quite a few examples of this approach actually working.
  • 0mbre 11y ago
    Well obvioysly to someone irrational every of his action seem rational. The point is that for a phycologicaly healthy and balanced human being these actions can not be called rational by any stretch of logic
    • eivarv 11y ago
      I think you'll find that psychological health has little to do with what people can convince themselves of, or convince themselves to do - i.e. you can't explain away Daesh (or WWII nazis, etc.) with mental illness. Their actions could absolutely be called rational and logical if you were to accept their premise - which is what I'd argue is irrational.
      • mercurial 11y ago
        You don't even need a Godwin point for that. Nobody was calling Air Marshall Harris, well-known for his strategy of carpet-bombing civilians with incendiaries during WWII, "insane" or "irrational". Instead, they gave him a bunch of medals and made him a baronet.