Our decisions often appear irrational until we understand the whole story.
While the North Korean state really is unlike any other on earth, the behaviors that make it appear irrational are perhaps its most rational.
Though this behavior appears irrational, it is widespread, according to a recent study conducted by three finance professors, Michael J. Cooper and P.Raghavendra Rau, both of Purdue University, and Huseyin Gulen of Virginia Tech.
In fact, what does appear irrational is that when more than 50 percent of road users travel by bus, 98 percent of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission grants from the Ministry of Urban Development have been spent on the expansion of roads, construction of flyovers and parking projects, in which the primary targeted beneficiaries are cars.
Yet when people engage in cultural practices that are unfamiliar or disturbing to the European observer, they appear irrational and thus undeserving of recognition and respect.
Much of the discussion stems from a variety of counterexamples to Reflection in which it actually appears irrational not to violate the principle.
If we do not ignore these, autonomy will appear irrational for accepting a huge loss of information, ignoring how we exploit a division of epistemic labor (Putnam 1975; Kitcher 1993).
However, most studies are based on a static analyzing framework, making it difficult to simulate real economic situations, in which the dynamic behavior and interaction between firms in an emission trading system are fairly complicated and appear irrational to some extent.
A related issue is that describing a subject's beliefs in terms of broad content can make a subject's beliefs appear irrational even though they are not: when beliefs are described in terms of broad content, they can be inconsistent with one another even though the inconsistency is in principle not discoverable by the subject.
Aim too high, and you could appear irrational or greedy.
First of all, remember that behaviors that appear irrational to you are there for a reason.
