Whenever I pose a question of the form "Why do people do X?" there's always someone who replies "Because people are irrational" Which, yes, but that's not an explanation! ...(cont.)
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"Because people aren't quite rational" can be a fair answer to why people *don't* do a specific thing, but not to why they do a specific other thing. Rationality constrains the set of likely actions.
Sometimes "Why do people do X?" means "Why don't the obvious reasons against X prevent people from acting on the obvious motivations for X?"
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E.g., I think "Because people are irrational" is a reasonable answer to "Why do people eat one marshmallow today instead of two tomorrow?"
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