"Sometimes you behave in irrational ways when you are under pressure," he said.
"He is behaving very irrational.
The existing problem of member states' behaving in irrational, unjustified ways against outbreaks in other countries is left unresolved.
It is said that art cannot behave in an irrational manner and cannot ignore logic; and certainly it is neither irrational nor illogical; but its own rationality, its own logic, is a quite different thing from the dialectical logic of the concept, and it was in order to indicate this peculiar and unique character that the name "logic of sense" or "aesthetic" was invented.
"Sway" is a provocative new book about the psychological forces that lead us to disregard facts or logic and behave in surprisingly irrational ways.
There are claims that a believer in the MWI will behave in an irrational way.
But while there's nothing more life-affirming than precision-detonating a couple of laxatives and taking a massive crap while your apartment reverberates to the sound of banging trance, it's wholly irrational to behave in this way.
Burgeoning research in behavioral economics speaks to this issue, pointing to many examples of putatively rational consumers behaving in distinctly irrational ways.
Even after all the sit-down interviews and a movie's worth of research, Mr. Gibney can't fully explain how a man whose life was built on coldly rational choices behaved in such irrational ways.
That is to say, we've seen these high-strung sitcom characters many, many times, quarreling, laughing, weeping and behaving like the irrational but warmhearted chunks of rock salt the stereotype demands.
They also have a habit of behaving like an irrational mob, "shutting down debate quite aggressively", argued Gordon Brown's former polling guru, and many of them only communicate with narrow groups of like-minded people.
