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Originally Posted by Richard Herley
I think she may deserve a bit less abuse. Her behaviour isn't rational. . . I had a peep at Jackie's blog and, yep, she doesn't seem rational to me.
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Love that word
rational. It and its companion
irrational are tossed about as conclusions but without definition. The implication is psychological disorder, but without ever really saying so or defining which disorder.
I'm not sure how one can conclude she is rational or irrational. Is it rational, for example, to pay millions of dollars for an oversized painting of a soup can when you can get the real thing for less than a dollar at your grocer?
I find the ease with which we use these words as covers for things we don't want to say pointedly troublesome -- it is the calling-a-rose-by-another-name syndrome
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