In fact, over the last six months, we've seen a concerted attack on all cryptocurrencies by every rational economic actor, and a
few irrational ones.
Psychologists and dating experts say it's smart to set reasonable standards and expectations, but relying
on irrational ones could mean missing out on a great mate.
(yet through history women have been judged the»em otional»
irrational ones, go figure!)
@CSmith, I would have thought that by definition theists were
the irrational ones in the sense that their beliefs are not based on reason and evidence, but on faith.
A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often
an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large.
One of the reasons I've never really liked sports games is a deep seated, unconscious and
irrational one I only figured out recently: The sound of a football crowd is the sound of a boring, childhood Saturday afternoon at home.
But it reflects disturbing trends of our times: a resistance to dissent, intellectual inflexibility, devotion to doctrine (much like that of religious fundamentalists), and a very destructive world view much like
the irrational one that prevailed prior to the Enlightenment.