But that's because you're asking a rational question, and most people are rational in their everyday lives.
— November, 2011, when asked about health care by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo "I have yet to hear a single reporter ask a single Occupy Wall Street person a single rational question about the economy" — November, 2011, at the CNBC debate "I don't know why you guys walk around saying this bologna".
Now that Bushwick and the rest of the city have been plunged into a new round of World Series psychoanalysis, it is difficult to get a rational answer to the question of why fans are rooting for their chosen teams, let alone figure out who is going to win this thing.
Accordingly, he rejected Virginia's contention that the constitutionality of the statutes, given their presumptive compatibility with the equal protection clause, should depend solely on whether they served a rational purpose a question best left to the wisdom of the state legislature, Virginia argued, in light of doubtful scientific evidence.
A clinician-scientist--or clinician-investigator, or whatever name one chooses--is a clinician who thinks about improving diagnosis and treatment for his/her patients and makes an effort to find a rational answer to unsolved questions.
In this article, Thayer articulated what became known as the "clear-error rule," arguing that a court should only strike down a congressional statute if its unconstitutionality is "so clear that it is not open to rational question".
According to Whelan, there are "hardly any" restraint advocates who believe that courts should strike down statutes only when their unconstitutionality is "so clear that it is not open to rational question".
McGinnis distinguishes the duty of clarity from the sweepingly deferential "clear-error rule" articulated by Harvard law professor James Bradley Thayer, who argued (in one of the most influential articles in the history of American constitutional law) that judges should only strike down congressional statutes if their unconstitutionality is "so clear that it is not open to rational question".
That is to say, given that we have certain beliefs, do these beliefs already bring with them a rational commitment to an answer to such questions as 'Are there numbers?' If our beliefs bring with them a rational commitment to an answer to an ontological question about the existence of certain entities then we can say that we are committed to the existence of these entities.
The other states, mainly Germany, ask rational questions about arms shipments to terrorists.
