RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 18, 2021 at 3:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2021 at 3:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Is there some specific irrationality to consider? Or is this your rejection of all thought as irrational, including..one presumes..that very thought itself?
I'm inclined to agree that if rational thought was an empty set then there would be no rational basis in thought for any particular thing. Is that how you've come to see the world? I'd be careful with the we's, in that case.
-You- once took it on faith that human intelligence was effective and reality had an intelligible order, and you've lost that faith. I guess that's the risk of attaching these things to justifications by faith? We can pick up and lose faiths regardless of the status of any fact of a matter in question. Insomuch as the loss of the one does collateral damage to an appraisal of the other - I'd say 100% rational human beings would do alot less of that.
I'm inclined to agree that if rational thought was an empty set then there would be no rational basis in thought for any particular thing. Is that how you've come to see the world? I'd be careful with the we's, in that case.
-You- once took it on faith that human intelligence was effective and reality had an intelligible order, and you've lost that faith. I guess that's the risk of attaching these things to justifications by faith? We can pick up and lose faiths regardless of the status of any fact of a matter in question. Insomuch as the loss of the one does collateral damage to an appraisal of the other - I'd say 100% rational human beings would do alot less of that.
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