Originally Posted by
lazygun37
Thanks for confirming, and you're right that I shouldn't have said "irrational" in an absolute sense. What's rational or not depends on the value one attaches to various things or outcomes. Your position is rational from your perspective/value system, almost by definition.
My point was just that you and I are at an impasse where we simply have to agree to disagree, because our value systems are so different. Knowing that clarifies things and allows people to move on.
By contrast, what I find frustrating is when people who, I suspect, simply share your value system make incredible logical contortions to avoid having to say that. Rip, for example, has two or three times now asked people to consider data that *he* chose. Yet when those people did, and he didn't like the results, he just moved on to the next justification, without even acknowledging that he was wrong (at least on whatever narrow point was being argued at the time). That's unhelpful.