If we are entitled to choose on our own behalf or on our children's behalf only when we are deemed rational, and rationality is defined to mean a consensus with the authorities, then autonomy is a bad joke.
At the heart of it is rationality and awareness".
A generation on, the economic and social rationality of the miners' resistance could not be clearer, while the self-serving attacks on the NUM since the strike ring increasingly hollow.
People are proposing perspectives that must be interrogated with facts, data, and rationality – not knee-jerk reactions banning one or two people instead of the act itself, viewing all hunters as environment haters, and so on.
Many of these researchers broadly accept the EMH, but see their role as uncovering sources of inefficiency that can be addressed to make markets more efficient.However, a second branch of financial economics is far more sceptical about markets' inherent rationality.
In a testy email exchange on the issue, Mr Dershowitz and blogger Glenn Greenwald resorted to ad hominem attacks on each other, questioning one another's rationality, intelligence and integrity.
At a White House press conference, he stressed the need to think through every action in an "extremely complicated" spot.In private, the prime minister makes a virtue of the cerebral rationality underpinning the relationship.
Some economists feel about the behaviouralists much as Robert Frost felt about writers of free verse: economics without rationality is like tennis without a net.
It may seem hard to square market gyrations like this with any reasonable conception of consumer rationality.
"Talmudic" (derived from the study of Jewish law) implies hair-splitting and rationality.
He presents Baghdad under the caliphs as a place of passionate, rancorous debate between faiths (at least three of them) and reason, in which faith had the upper hand but reason could still fight its corner, and even the most purist advocates of faith made some allowance for Hellenic rationality.
