Troy Spiral (13) Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Being "rational" is not the natural state of mankind. We are far more adept at being emotional and reactionary. "Well reasoned thought" is difficult by comparison something that takes more work. Reasoning well, doesn't propagate throughout the population well because it tends to cause less "self-righteous indignation" and takes education. While any grade school child can hold a belief (emotionally/instinctually without any real basis) and then go ranting about it and it comes off as (potentially) genune to many, especially people that confuse volume with accuracy. Reasoning and questioning is a better system than just assuming we "know" what the best thing to do is , and then just start SCREAMING and RANTING about it, but it also comes across as wishy-washy to some, and sometimes causes lack of motivation due to uncertainty. Thus some really silly at best, and scary/idiotic ideas get spread around very fast via the angry-screamers and can damage progress made by well thought out ideas, rapidly. Some say there's a danger of us losing our democratic/market/freedom based societies due to this phenomenon. It has been squashed many times throughout history via this method, nothing says what we have now will last. The only difference is, we may lose it on our watch if we aren't careful.
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