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Re:The irrational rationality of Jonathan Swift by joggery on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:58PM (#12961606)
>humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use

They use it as children; with adults explicit reason is mostly confined to their work.

The rest of the time adults use reason covertly: to rationalise doing what they think high status people expect of them.

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