A laughable illusion

[Conservationist]

Man is universally a rational animal; his nature is reason

I saw this elsewhere and had to chuckle.

Man is... many things. Including a whole lot of impulse control issues.

To a computer, we have "decisional Tourette's"

[Blair]

Man is... many things. Including a whole lot of impulse control issues.

Perhaps you should have checked yours in before you started an inane bunch of new threads.

[Talking Ass]

Prince, please don't take offense, but for that remark I have decreed that you shall be thrown into the Outer Darkness there to be sodomized by hyenas.

[Conservationist]

Man is... many things. Including a whole lot of impulse control issues.

Perhaps you should have checked yours in before you started an inane bunch of new threads.

Miley? Miley Cyrus? It's okay, the catering truck is here.

[Anders Schlander]

Get miley cyrus on the reasoning show?

[Dan Rowden]

That quote sounds a bit like Locke. Not the greatest thinker. It's painfully obvious reason is merely a facet of human nature and certainly not its primary one. For most people it's a tool of convenience employed to support and justify other drives.

[Conservationist]

For most people it's a tool of convenience employed to support and justify other drives.

I agree. I call this process "backward rationalization" for lack of a better term: act on impulse, then through assuming equality/self-perfection, invent a reason why it "should" be so.

For example, the classic case is the guy who wrecks his car and then says, "I meant to do that -- now I'll bike to work and Get In Shape."