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georgekv | 14 years ago

[Rational] ignorance [can be a qualified] bliss.

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wr1472|14 years ago

There you go again, trying to make everyone more informed.

Stop it.

Klinky|14 years ago

One person's rational is another person's irrational.

pjscott|14 years ago

In perception, yes, but not in reality. If you want to be alive tomorrow, jumping off a tall building will be irrational even if you think it's the last step in a convoluted ritual to grant yourself immortality. That's an exaggerated example, but the principle holds in general: people's desires may differ, but the rationality of any actions taken in the pursuit of those desires is something you can evaluate objectively, at least in principle.