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Laluchacontinua Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 04:29 PM
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23. I think any conclusions about human rationality are complicated by the effect
Edited on Thu Nov-03-11 04:32 PM by Laluchacontinua
of imperfect information.

In both cases, partly unavoidable & partly deliberately engineered by the powerful.

Also, the definition of "rational" itself is political: does it mean to do what's best for me, damn everyone/everything else? Or what's best for "my" community (however defined, and on whatever illusionary basis?)

Not sure what it means exactly to act rationally.
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