Re: "rational"

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Jan 03, 2014; 11:47pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584623.html

Chris Arnade writes:

"The people who challenged my atheism most were drug addicts and
prostitutes"

Glen writes:

"Between then and now, I came across the term "predatory economic
rationalism"

[..]

"Perhaps it relates to the categorization of people into those who sense
lost opportunity acutely versus those who tend to think their options
are more open? Or, perhaps it has something to do with whether one
believes in free will? ... or perhaps the extent of the freedom in free
will?"

Or the `successful' may just be apex predators, but still just one of
many possible species of person.  They feed on the productivity of these
other species.   Perhaps not wanting to be one of them, the drug addict
(unconsciously) denies the predator that productivity...  As Arnade
observes, everyone makes mistakes, so perhaps we can just enumerate the
wolves and note that's what wolves do but that they get no further honor.

Marcus

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