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[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 263 points 1 year ago

Only rational if you're the last person in line and not moving doesn't spill people out of the designated waiting ropes.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It's still rational if you don't care about those people though

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago

Willful denial of the feelings of others is irrational in itself. Everything you know about humanity should lead you to believe that others have feelings too

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

“Why? Because fuck ‘em. That’s why” turns out is not a rational mind set.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

She's counting on people behind her not doing the rational thing which would be ignoring her and just passing her if there's lot of empty room in front of her.

[-] bric@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess it depends on your definition of "rational". From a pure logic perspective (i.e. the math definition) being rational just means making optimal choices in pursuit of your goals. I can be perfectly rational, understand that others have feelings, and simply not care about them unless they benefit me. Being perfectly rational basically makes you a sociopath, only considering other factors or people when they further your goals. Emotions and feelings are irrational to begin with, but sometimes it's better to be a little bit irrational

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you're just fundamentally misunderstanding what being rational means. There is nothing inherently rational in being selfish or only caring about your own goals and what benefits you, especially not when you are a member of a species that evolved to be extremely social and community focused. Emotions and feelings aren't inherently irrational either. They can certainly be expressed in irrational ways, but they themselves are neither rational or irrational. They're just a fact of nature. You might as well say it's irrational for living creatures to have to excrete waste. Sure, it may be irrational to take a piss on your boss right before asking for a raise, but the act of taking a piss is not in itself rational or irrational. It's just a bodily function. So if you refuse to take that factor into consideration because you claim it's irrational, well that'd just be ridiculous.

Imagine a teacher refusing to let a student get up to go to the bathroom because they claim it's irrational to need to take a piss, and therefore perfectly rational to force them to stay where they are and ignore their bodily needs. The teacher is being selfish in that situation, only making optimal choices in pursuit of their own goals (to teach the class without interruption), and doesn't care about the other person's need to perform bodily functions unless it benefits them. And yet I think most people with even half a brain cell will agree that the teacher in this scenario is not in any way shape or form acting rationally. They're just being a dickhead.

Sociopaths aren't more rational than other people or "too rational", they lack the ability to feel empathy or they only feel a small amount of empathy but not enough to affect their decisions. It has nothing to do with being rational or logical, sociopaths can often be very stupid irrational people. Not to mention, while sociopaths often don't care about how other people feel, they do often care about how other people perceive them.

[-] hglman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Feelings are not rational or not; they are a state and part of the deduction you're calling logic. Your description of following reason as being sociopathic is wrong. What you are describe is being over-biased to your wants. Nothing about logic says it's ideal to live only for yourself. Any suggestion of what you should use sense for is arbitrary.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You don't care about the people behind you inline but you still care enough about the people in front of you to wait behind them? Weird lol

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Rationality doesn't exclude emotions or empathy. That's just being literal, not rational.

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