It may be too packed with psychological baggage for many people to judge rationally.
Which alternatives are judged rationally eligible may vary with the theory of justified choice.
Yet another method would be to use something like the two step approach Gibbard uses when he analyzes judgments of rightness in terms of judging it rationally appropriate to feel guilt and anger at certain actions.
But most of all, stay informed, judge rationally, and don't let rare unfortunate incidents stop you from traveling the world.
In perhaps his most influential book, Public Opinion (1922; reissued 1956; paperback ed., 1965), Lippmann seemed to imply that ordinary citizens can no longer judge public issues rationally, since the speed and condensation required in the mass media tend to produce slogans rather than interpretations.
And it also, as Haskell argues, widened the sense of possibility by demonstrating that people were able to rationally judge risk and reward and deal intelligently with problems that were thousands of miles away or years into the future.
So, a subject may rationally judge that is a square when taking her experience at face value not only because her perception involves a nonconceptual way of representing a square but for that reason, since such a nonconceptual way of representing squares is part of the individuation conditions of the concept square.
We should not fear unfamiliar life forms but try to rationally judge their risks and benefits and embrace them in a responsible way for the benefit of humankind.
Clients and attorneys alike can be lured into the courtroom if they feel like they have a strong case, forgetting that neither jurors nor judges act rationally 100% of the time.
If we believe ourselves to have a normative reason to φ, then rationally we ought to φ, and in judging that we have normative reason to φ, we will necessarily, insofar as we are rational, be moved to φ.
