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So she was making a politically rational decision.
Except that, wait a minute, politicians are rational, too, and they're responding to what they think the voters want.
So it becomes quite rational to deny services to injectors.
Are we any more rational about sex?
What's rational for public health is also rational for individual sex workers because it's really bad for business to have another STI.
But it is changing the equation of what's rational in sexual decision-making.
So it's not a great job, but for a lot of people it really is quite a rational choice.
There are as many different ways of being rational as there are human beings on the planet, and that's one of the glories of human existence.
But those ways of being rational are not independent of one another, so it's rational for a drug injector to share needles because of a stupid decision that's made by a politician, and it's rational for a politician to make that stupid decision because they're responding to what they think the voters want.
It's going to be really hard for us to individually affect what's rational for every Frankie and every Ines out there, but you can at least use your vote to stop politicians doing stupid things that spread HIV.
In theory, we're thinking, rational human beings.
The neocortex is responsible for all of our rational and analytical thought and language.
Now, retro-vaccinology is just one technique within the ambit of so-called rational vaccine design.
It makes no rational sense, but that's why we study psychology.
To calm myself down, I started taking pictures, and as I did, I became rational again, and I was getting buffeted by a Harmattan wind which was coming out of the upper right hand corner of this picture, and I started to notice how it had filled the entire crater with sand.
On the other hand was my grandmother, who also took care of me and was more spiritual, less educated and definitely less rational.
So it is not at all rational.
They're not rational about probability.
We look at all the rules, the processes, the systems in the company, the ones we use to take decisions and allocate resources, and we try to get rid of anything that's not very clear, not very rational, doesn't make sense, and we also try to fix anything that's limiting the transfer of information within the company.
It's very hard to make them part of our rational decision.
But if we take the time to ask ourselves whether the rational answer is the right one ... we all know deep inside what the answer is.
Where can we push ourselves a little bit further, to go beyond what's rational and do what's right?
After all, no rational person could believe that as of today (1/5/08), PEG O' MY HEART and two other Davies films recently shown on Turner Classic Movies (THE FLORODORA GIRL and MARIANNE) deserved the exceptionally high scores--ranking them higher than such films as HIGH NOON, BEN HUR, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT!!
Despite the narrative of the reporter woman, at no point in this show is there even anything close to something that could be considered a rational thought.
In fact I enjoy a good rational logical dialogue and story line.
The joke is probably not lost on those who will seek this out; I don't think there would be a soul out there who would consider this anything as a serious action-thriller effort (unless on an ironic level beyond the capacity for rational thought).
So what would any rational person do?
Seriously, I couldn't find anything that constituted a rational human thought in this movie.
They assume that there are ghosts from the get go and if they ever find rational explanations behind the experiences they have to be drug kicking and screaming into admitting it.
These millions of dollars could have been spent to make three or four independent movies, but no, let's give to some director who'll make a film that tells people that war can be explained by rational means.
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