The war in Afghanistan may originally have had some sort of acceptable rationale, but it was a lost cause almost as soon as it began, when America failed to win the crucial struggle for hearts and minds, killing thousands of Afghan civilians in bombing raids, imprisoning others in vile conditions in prisons at Kandahar and Bagram (where some died), and sending others to Guantánamo.
Nevertheless, the fact that parties and movements thinking of and calling themselves conservative, for all their factiousness, have been such a prominent and permanent feature of the modern political landscape suggests that they're bound together by some sort of shared, deeply rooted rationale.
That sort of rationale would excuse any tyrant who thought he was right, as if ideological fanaticism or religious faith were virtues in themselves.
He had good grounds for leaving, as good as Manea's own — his father had been murdered for being a Jew, possibly by the government — but Manea felt only irritated scorn for this sort of rationale.
However, the considerations he offers for an a priori method do not all obviously draw on this sort of rationale.
"The whole area of personalized medicine is going to get impacted by this sort of rationale," says Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in Madison, which works to commercialize academic discoveries.
The lawmakers who added the VFG to the list of banned features not only declined to produce any sort of rationale for how the VFG makes guns deadlier or less safe, but it's likely that they didn't even know what it was or how it was used.
I've heard that sort of rationale before where I live in South Carolina.
What was the Motion Picture Academy thinking, giving an honorary Oscar to Jackie Chan, whose flourishing career from a commercial standpoint does not particularly represent the sort of rationale that merits an Academy Award.
New treatment approaches require a specific sort of rationale: new interventions of any sort are intended to solve certain problems with previous approaches and those problems should be explicitly noted.
