The Iranian regime has issued some outrageous statements and has used deception and cheating for covering its nuclear program, but that does not make it irrational or indeed suicidal.
*An earlier version of this article stated that single-member districts make it irrational for people to support minor parties; it is in fact single-choice voting.
Having to appear in court, Mr. Kissane argued, is a similarly effective hurdle because the high value of a wealthy motorist's time would make it irrational to lose several hours in court just to save a few hundred dollars.
That does not make it irrational to be indifferent between alternatives.
But this standard of rationality would make it irrational not to recognize all the logical consequences of what one believes.
Alternatively, societies that are oppressive make it irrational in general for the people who are oppressed to trust those who oppress them (Baier 1986, 259; Potter 2002, 24).
If in fact it is sound, the whole thinking process is a reliable way of reaching the conclusion; so in the absence of factors that would make it irrational to trust the thinking, it would be a way of discovering the conclusion to be true.
Some attitude that you have, we might say, makes it /irrational /of you to have or fail to have some other attitude, whether or not you have reason for or against any of those attitudes.
What makes it so irrational is that I KNOW he's a good actor.
