Human Rationality Debate
Comments debate the assumption that humans are rational, highlighting irrational behaviors, motivated reasoning, and the limitations of rationality in human decision-making.
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You're assuming rationality.
Some folks are irrational; probably not a good reason to throw out rationality.
You seem to be assuming that people are rational.
It's irrational to pretend as if we are rational.
Unfortunately it's often rational to act irrationally.
Lots of people find ways to irrationalize being rational.
Rational minds love rationalizing don't they.
Almost like humans are not always rational /s
You're acting like people are rational, and they aren't.
Too bad humans aren't rational.