From LibertyPen's brilliantly written essay: "Compassion that ignores consequences is not compassion at all; it is irrationality dressed in moral clothing."

"Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man's means of survival and, therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that which is anti-mind, is anti-life." Ayn Rand

The abandonment of reason may have reached its limit. See this link to a Washington Post editorial from a couple of days ago regarding transgender issues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...

Nailed it !

"To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death." AR

Irrationality reminds me of this quote "The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".

And it is a huge problems in MARKETS. Where the market itself expresses emotions, and trading against it with logic often fails. Buying when there is blood in the streets seems IRRATIONAL at some level, but logical at another.

Which is part of the problem. An IRRATIONAL Person (typical Leftists) see THEMSELVES as normal, and USE (logical) as IRRATIONAL. (It's a relative concept). We certainly look irrational to them.

And it's why "generic Labelling works" (Call Trump Dark... Without a single example. It lets the other side fill in what THEY think makes him dark, and therefore it is an accurate attack/depiction, and therefore hard to defend against.

If they gave a specific example. It becomes easier to defend, for some people will NOT see "Threatening Greenland" as "Dark", and it immediately loses it's power.