there aren’t any rational people and there’s no such thing as rationality
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What causes ordinarily rational people to lose their grasp on rationality?
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what there is is performances of sanity, and people do those to fulfill the social contract on their end. the more the social contract appears to be breaking on other people’s ends, the less incentive there is for anyone to continue the performance of sanity
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reasonableness is reasonable!
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we can taboo rationality for u (because u taught us to), will you say that there's no being better or worse at making predictions about the world and achieving your goals
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Rationality is in fact antithetical to the vast majority of human experience.
We are emotional, reactionary, and biased af by our very nature.
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This is precisely why a religious person who believes science is filled with signs of God shouldn’t be bothered by so many atheist scientists
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"Rationality" means you basically accept the same facts that I do and draw similar conclusions from them.