Just try considering all the old people communists, not deporting them, but also not paying them their benefits (however real or imaginary) and see where this g

Just try considering all the old people communists, not deporting them, but also not paying them their benefits (however real or imaginary) and see where this goes. It would be uproar, and thus irrational. The case held that withholding benefits from Nestor wasn't irrational. Broadly doing to a whole population what was done to Nestor would hardly be rational, and certainly would not be smooth sailing.