Sunday after we witnessed another mass shooting and just like after every one of these massacres, rational people asked "how many more must die before we act?" We cannot change the world overnight, we can't defeat ISIS overnight, we can't end mental illness overnight, and we can't end hate overnight.
Ritholtz writes: " 'Rational Irrationality' asks us to ignore the repercussions of our behaviors.
It would be more rational to ask the state to limit, through legislation, the liability of the tramway, to preserve the fare and allow tramway passengers, like passengers on international flights, to purchase privately and individually any amount of insurance they like.
Is this not rational to ask?" On Wednesday night, dozens of passengers' families broke through a police cordon around the disaster site.
Since they don't know what the situation will be in a couple of years, it is rational to ask if a candidate shares your values, if he's saying what he believes, if he connects with you, if you trust him, and if you identify with him.
By subjective Bayesian standards, that is all rational inquirers are asked to do.
Like any rational person she asked what the limit was and Comcast told her there was no limit on download bandwidth, but told her she was using too much.
But since he has asked for rational, evidence-based policy debate, things get harder for Turnbull the deeper the opposition dives into policy.
This trick allowed the 5th Circuit to perform a very deferential rational basis review, which simply asked whether the statute was rationally related to a legitimate government interest.
If frames overpower rational criticism, Pinker asks, then why do Lakoff and other quasi-relativists write books rationally criticizing frames?
