Quote:RAD Wrote:
So you're saying two people can make two inconsistent contradictory arguments and both be making a rational argument? If so what is the point of even claiming to be rational?
Perhaps you'd like to have a little think about that statement.
That very thing happens all the time here, in the US and UK where we each have an adversarial legal system.IE each side has access to the same facts, yet argue an opposite position. Both sides are rational.
Perhaps it is a little pointless for any given human being to claim to be rational, because most of us aren't,at least with any consistency. I don'tr claim to be,and I can't recall ever running across a single human being who I could accuse of being rational even most of the time.
My observation is that as a species,our most highly developed reasoning skill is rationalisation,which is the antithesis of rational thought. To be fair,you'd have to go along way to find a more rational group of people than most of the atheists on this forum--and even some of them display a distressingly irrational tolerance of irritating theists.
