still crazy after
Faith spawns heinous crimes that in the light of reason are incomprehsible. My friend Philip once told me you can't understand the reasons of the irrational because you are rational. That was nearly 40 years ago and I still find myself trying to identify the motives and dynamics underlying belief systems that are so demonstrably wrong and yet continue to shape and animate human behaviour.
posted by OinO at 3:17 AM
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Philip was close to a truth, but he would have been closer if he'd told you that when something seems irrational to you, you probably aren't getting the meta-logic that the 'irrational' people who are propounding 'irrational' course of action are basing their advice on.
When you understand the 'logic' they are using, you might very well think it's psychotic logic, or just plain wrong, and the resulting behavior is "bad."
But I bet it will seem less irrational, and it's always possible that once you understand the 'logic' they use, you may even adopt it yourself.
If nothing else, you'll understand where they're coming from, and may have an easier time dissuading them from first principles, or maybe simply derailing them.
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