RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
July 16, 2021 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2021 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It would only be less reactionary when being reactionary wasn’t the rational conclusion. Less violent when violence wasn’t the rational conclusion.
If, when we think of these things, we’re categorizing them as somehow fundamentally irrational, we’ve got the snake eating it’s own tail. The question becomes, if by rational we only mean to include our preferred outcomes or acts - the good ones, excluding those others, if people were better, would the world be better?
Better, I suppose? Though that might still just be me inflating the importance of our species state to the betterment of the world. I think it’s really hard for us to predict what we would be or would do if we had command of full rational agency.
-assuming that we don’t already, that what we already are and do is essentially not that.
If, when we think of these things, we’re categorizing them as somehow fundamentally irrational, we’ve got the snake eating it’s own tail. The question becomes, if by rational we only mean to include our preferred outcomes or acts - the good ones, excluding those others, if people were better, would the world be better?
Better, I suppose? Though that might still just be me inflating the importance of our species state to the betterment of the world. I think it’s really hard for us to predict what we would be or would do if we had command of full rational agency.
-assuming that we don’t already, that what we already are and do is essentially not that.
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