Sentences with phrase «irrational arguments»

We all make similarly irrational arguments about decisions in our lives: we hang on to losing stocks, unprofitable investments, failing businesses and unsuccessful relationships.

Here are five hallmarks of irrational arguments.

The plot of the film is really more of a subplot, comprising some 20 - 25 minutes of the 105 - minute runtime, which is otherwise spent on the two snobs having irrational arguments about stupid things, pausing occasionally to have a bland version of kinky sex (sometimes they leave the lights on!).

The paradox created by attempting to weave together the great contradictions in God's portrayal through the old and new testaments, coupled with the firm assertion that God «never changes», creates a dizzying level of mental gymnastics to try to rationalize what seems to me to be an irrational argument.

But, if a mom is trying to make an irrational argument for why she just shouldn't «have» to breastfeed her kid, I bet Hannah Rosin looks like a patron saint!

Even if I am fully aware of the conflicts inherent in the irrational arguments for things like God, Country, or finding a «soul mate,» I feel like any good faith investigation into these beliefs must acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity really does believe, or at least wants to believe, in romance and myths.

Therefore: any attempt to deal with externalities rationally is irrational (and: irrational arguments are best countered with other irrational arguments)

This logic, that it * could * have stopped, is just an irrational argument.