The writing for Locke was criticized, and one IGN writer said that "it seems irrational that he would go and [stab Naomi] in the back without explaining himself".
It seems irrational to support a system that allows women to abort girls in order to protect themselves from the fury of patriarchs.
It seems irrational to me, but he says it is all down to lobbying by the timber industry.What becomes clear is that there are three sets of negotiations for a climate deal.
Andrew Logan, director of oil and insurance programs at Ceres, a group devoted to promoting environmental issues at corporations, said at the meeting that it "seems irrational" that Exxon would not attach greater importance to stemming climate change.
I think it's the common marker of our humanity to ask: can you see yourself in someone else's shoes, and can you believe that someone's behavior, even if it seems irrational to you, might have some underlying logic?
It seems irrational to fear, as Berman does, that a lukewarm profile in the Times Magazine, a favorable mention or two in The New York Review of Books, and a teaching job at Oxford would help Ramadan "break into... the American conversation," not to mention force a "reactionary turn" in the country's intellectual life.
Fundamentally, it seems irrational to leave an agreement that's working today out of a fixation on potential growth of Iran's nuclear program more than a decade from now, when such growth could happen tomorrow if we unravel the agreement.
The problem here is not that Moore's principle is incorrect, but rather that it seems irrational since it puts a block on moral reasoning.
Savulescu's justification for the principle of Procreative Beneficence is that it seems irrational not to select the best child when no other reasons are relevant to one's choice.
The reason it seems irrational is that it is.
