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They want to make sure they make the best rational decision – but they can’t.
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Aristotle held that our nature as rational animals means that it is objectively good for us when we act rationally and objectively bad for us when we fail to do so.
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Rioting and unrest, while tragic and destructive, remains a historically familiar and rational response to state violence and weak democratic institutions.
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That’s like telling us rational economic man is self-interested.
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Where I live behind the Orange curtain in Southern California, the sudden leap to virtual classroom teaching and learning makes rational sense during this period of growing coronavirus infections.
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Supercomputers allow researchers to take a rational approach and aim to selectively muzzle proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, needs for its life cycle.
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It was the first rational word since I had begun to dig, and it acted on Cumshaw like a douche of cold water.
THE LOST VALLEYJ. M. WALSH
The rational being is impelled towards absolute independence, and strives after freedom for the sake of freedom.
A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN EPITOMEALBERT SCHWEGLER
But this does not authorize the rational psychologist to affirm, from mere conceptions, its permanence beyond life.
THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASONIMMANUEL KANT
It is just possible that these propositions are true; if so, a rational man will have no quarrel with them.
FREE THOUGHT AND OFFICIAL PROPAGANDABERTRAND RUSSELL

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