Perhaps from a rational viewpoint, the Scientologists' beliefs are no more bizarre than any other religion, but as one ex-member points out, Christians or Muslims can explain their beliefs in minutes; Scientologists deliberately withhold their revealed visions until you have invested so much time and money that backing out is unthinkable.
What is important is to evaluate incidents from a distance with a rational viewpoint, determine the points of deadlock and open a clean sheet that is full of reasonable solutions.
A rational utilitarian viewpoint of organ donation, based on the utility of organs to transplantation, does not encompass the moral dimensions of the issue in the ICU.
"Even though son-preference is not rational from the viewpoint of society as a whole, it is a rational choice for an individual," says Li. Chen's home lies near lush rice paddies, where farmers in wide-brimmed straw hats bend double.
What many of these solutions don't address is the more complex, nuanced and long-term challenge of educating the public about the importance of informed debate – and why properly considering an accurate, rational and compelling viewpoint from the other side of the fence is an essential part of the democratic process.
Three effective properties of heterogeneous systems are discussed from the viewpoint of rational mechanics and micromechanics: viscosity of suspensions and the tensile modulus and thermal conductivity of solid composites, including porous materials.
Nevertheless, we hope that this added complexity will eventually pay off in computational models that have a rational structure from the viewpoint of the stimulus, the animal, and the brain.
Apparently, breaking the tie between otherwise symmetrical equilibria requires us to supplement the austere viewpoint of pure rational analysis with some additional input, either from human psychology or else from experience.
The characters in this multipronged narrative who espouse the author's beliefs are given ample opportunity to explain their viewpoints in calm, rational tones, while those who would dare to contradict him are depicted as sophists, plagiarists and charlatans or, worse still, trust-fund liberals who live in Northern California lofts and read Mother Jones magazine.
The interplay between both should ensure that the identification reflects the establishment of a rational consensus in which all viewpoints and difficulties are deliberated.
In reading it, I was struck by what seemed like a remarkable accomplishment, at least from the perspective of American politics in 2018: convincing someone to completely change their racist viewpoint by way of rational debate.
