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I think the article wants to argue against that. It isn't rational that you love your wife more than other women. Why constrain yourself to such rules for poli
by raxxorrax 5y ago
I think the article wants to argue against that.
It isn't rational that you love your wife more than other women. Why constrain yourself to such rules for policies?
Is dying for your freedom rational? Investing in symbolic architecture? Skydiving could be seen as fundamentally irrational. Some still do it.
All depends on how exactly you define rationality.
Overall it might be prudent to value rational arguments, I complete agree with that.
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> It isn't rational that you love your wife more than other women. Why constrain yourself [...]
Reading it again, this can transport something different than the point I tried to make...
- satellite2 5y agoI think you can rationally assert that the feeling of loving your wife or paragliding is more important to you than the risk of missing out or the risk of death. It is a preference and that is what form the basis of interests. > dying for your freedom Is somewhat different, it's already the execution of a policy (fight) for a preference. And I think it can be perfectly reasonable outcome as it's not even hard to find chapters in History during which conditions made it the only acceptable choice
- raxxorrax 5y agoTrue, but you meet the same difficulties. A preference doesn't really have to be rational. Fund the park or the bath, paint the city hall blue or yellow. Especially in a democracy there often is no pure rational solution.