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Is sanity rational?
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RE: Is sanity rational?
October 4, 2014 at 1:57 am (This post was last modified: October 4, 2014 at 1:57 am by bennyboy.)
(October 3, 2014 at 8:04 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: In the following contexts, "I am extremely important to myself, or to my loved ones, etc.," yes, that is sane, rational, and healthy. "I am extremely important because..." "...I am one of five hundred people whom the species depends on for its survival," or "I am making an indispensable contribution to my fellow beings whose lives largely depend on my existence," again, yes.

Certainly it's sane. But is it rational? Can arbitrary value judgments ever really be rational?
(October 3, 2014 at 8:48 pm)KUSA Wrote: Being sane means you can function without killing other people.
How about suicide? Is it / can it be sane?
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Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - September 25, 2014 at 9:24 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Surgenator - September 25, 2014 at 10:56 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Jenny A - September 26, 2014 at 12:15 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - September 26, 2014 at 12:44 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - September 26, 2014 at 8:32 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - October 3, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Alex K - September 26, 2014 at 3:29 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Aoi Magi - September 26, 2014 at 4:19 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - September 26, 2014 at 4:22 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - September 26, 2014 at 6:13 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Michael B - September 26, 2014 at 8:07 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - September 26, 2014 at 8:49 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Michael B - September 26, 2014 at 7:00 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by mralstoner - October 3, 2014 at 12:51 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by psychoslice - October 3, 2014 at 2:20 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Mudhammam - October 3, 2014 at 3:16 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 3, 2014 at 7:31 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Mudhammam - October 3, 2014 at 8:04 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 4, 2014 at 1:57 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Mudhammam - October 4, 2014 at 11:24 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Well Rounded Rectangle - October 4, 2014 at 12:34 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by *Deidre* - October 3, 2014 at 3:18 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - October 3, 2014 at 6:02 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - October 3, 2014 at 6:04 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - October 4, 2014 at 4:14 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by *Deidre* - October 3, 2014 at 11:47 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by KUSA - October 3, 2014 at 8:48 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Zidneya - October 3, 2014 at 11:42 pm
Re: RE: Is sanity rational? - by KUSA - October 4, 2014 at 2:03 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 4, 2014 at 11:02 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Tartarus Sauce - October 4, 2014 at 10:13 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 5, 2014 at 1:41 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Whateverist - October 5, 2014 at 1:51 am

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