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MindHack

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HI there,

does your reasonable reason include emotional reasons? When do emotional reasons reasonably become bad reasons to reason from?
 
I'm not beating around the bush.

One can take reasonable steps toward an unreasonable goal.

One can take unreasonable steps toward a reasonable goal.

One can take reasonable steps toward a reasonable goal.

One can take unreasonable steps toward a unreasonable goal.

When I state that it depends on on how you define reasonable, are you talking about the steps or the goals? What one group of people defines as reasonable another group (in the same society) could define as unreasonable.

So how are you defining reasonable? In terms of steps, in terms of goals, or in terms of the overall picture?

Are you using an utilitarian form of reasonable? A pragmatic form of reasonable? An idealistic form of reasonable? How do you determine what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?
 
CommonEnlightenment said:
I'm not beating around the bush.

One can take reasonable steps toward an unreasonable goal.

One can take unreasonable steps toward a reasonable goal.

One can take reasonable steps toward a reasonable goal.

One can take unreasonable steps toward a unreasonable goal.

When I state that it depends on on how you define reasonable, are you talking about the steps or the goals? What one group of people defines as reasonable another group (in the same society) could define as unreasonable.

So how are you defining reasonable? In terms of steps, in terms of goals, or in terms of the overall picture?

Are you using an utilitarian form of reasonable? A pragmatic form of reasonable? An idealistic form of reasonable? How do you determine what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?

you actually demonstrated it perfectly now, you were being way too reasonable to be reasonable..
one can only be too reasonable to be reasonable if one uses reason to scrutinize the unreasonable.. such as my stupid question :mrgreen:
 
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