Rationality can only be meaningfully defined as an optimizing behavior over ones preferences. If these are to not do any extra work unless fined the neighbors w

Rationality can only be meaningfully defined as an optimizing behavior over ones preferences. If these are to not do any extra work unless fined the neighbors were plenty rational before. The author is yearning for morally decent people. I guess Kant would have called this rational but as an economist I am forever doomed to accept peoples immoral behavior as the expression of their immoral preferences.