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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by solipsism on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:16AM (#10564831)
Rational.. irrational.. I hope you can see that it's a pointless argument. The word "rational" is highly subjective so we shouldn't pretend there's some objective measure of rationality.

* Kill an innocent civilian * Have or perform an abortion * Eat meat * Fight in a war * Drop an atomic bomb on a city * Commit suicide

That's all shit that some people call rational and others call irrational. The truth is that "rational" is a word we choose because it sounds objective and authoritative, but it really means: "something that makes sense to me"

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by tonyedgecombe on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:41AM (#10564981)
It's important because to start to solve these problems you have to be able to see things from their point of view, you can't really do that if you think they are irrational.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by 0mbre on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:38AM (#10565099)
Well you can wonder why did these people act irrationaly? Could these behaviour have been detected? Could they have been helped out of this narrowed point of view of thinking that killing innocent is the right thing to do ? I don't think anyone today hasn't in mind those questions.
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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by tonyedgecombe on Saturday November 14, 2015 @06:40AM (#10565341)
But all the while you think they acted irrationally I don't think you will really be able to understand why they did it.
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