And when you make it rational for people to bet the house, you may end up without a roof over your head.
In the cases of both Spain and Italy debts that appear sustainable at interest rates of 3-4% become unsustainable if rates move persistently to 6-7%, making it rational for investors to keep selling bonds even as they get cheaper.
"It is clear that the nonresident property owners have a sufficient interest in town affairs to make it rational for the town to include them in the political process," the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled.
Some hold that morality applies only to those rational beings that have those features of human beings that make it rational for all of them to endorse morality, viz., fallibility and vulnerability.
David Wootton argues that even if force occasionally works at changing a person's belief, it does not work often enough to make it rational for persons to consent to the government exercising that power.
There will be times when the circumstances make it rational for her to select something that is (generally speaking) contrary to her nature (e.g., cutting off one's own hand in order to thwart a tyrant).
Thus, the rationality of suicides were primarily discussed in terms of when circumstances and consequences would make it rational for persons to end their lives, not in terms of autonomy or decision-making capacity [ 46].
We do not believe so because even in the unlikely event that 'me' in one (or even twenty) years time is not really me, there will be enough psychological continuity between the two of us to make it rational for me now to have a strong interest in what happens to me modified in twenty years.
