Comments on: Football

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:01:19 +0000

What I am trying to say is rationality is a cold concept. It does not involve love. Morality is less cold. But you can argue it is also based on a set of rules possibly based on hedonistic concepts. What is needed is an inner awakening and an ever growing respect for yourself and as a result for others. Then things come naturally and dont have to be governed by anything.
P.S. Aunt Rita says we should be working

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:49:26 +0000

The important word (for me) that you used is “rule”. I don’t think things that important should be categorised as rules. It should be part of us. Which I think it is possible if people are able to free themselves from their misconcepts and see things as they really are. Do you see what I am trying to say? Very difficult to achieve, though, given all the external factors involved.

By: Pedro Pinheiro

Pedro Pinheiro — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:34:22 +0000

Depends on how you define morality. I think the best “morality” systems are based on time independent reciprocal rules, e.g., the Golden Rule – do to others what you would like others to do to you, and don’t do to others what you wouldn’t like others to do to you, both on equivalent circunstances. Of course you have to couple this with other rules for it to work (where it gets complicated, because “equivalent circunstances” is a very broad concept).

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 18 May 2006 12:00:26 +0000

One definiton of rational is sane or of sound mind. To me very ambiguous. Given the level of our knowledge of the mind we would have to categorize rationality as a subjective concept. Therefore, depending on your definition of sane, averting war cannot be categorized as a rational concept. I think it has more to do with morality. Is morality a rational concept?

By: xonecas

xonecas — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:41:45 +0000

Well, without irrationality, we wouldn’t be impulsive, and that would cut short a lot of the things that make life fun.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:40:10 +0000

Well said. It is our irrational side which allows us to create (possibly) something completely new.

By: Pedro Pinheiro

Pedro Pinheiro — Mon, 15 May 2006 08:36:42 +0000

I’m not complaining about irrationality, but about the destructive force of our primitive behaviours. Good things like art, some might say, come from our irrational side, but it would be a better world if our rational sides could tame what leads us to war and killing.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Sun, 14 May 2006 21:10:50 +0000

Can you imagine how terribly boring we would be if we were totally rational beings. Complete rationality to me equates to complete predictability. Like a computer program which always responds in a “correct” fashion when confronted with a problem.