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by sneak 954 days ago
People who make irrational choices about large financial purchases don’t make good long term life partners.
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Wait till you hear that car purchases are largely emotional and 99% of what we say about those decisions are post-facto rationalizations.
Does it mean you can forget about rationality forever and stop trying to bring it to the world?
I wouldn't use those crusader stat points in my personal life. Unless other character incompatibilities are already apparent.
As someone else already mentioned, did your last vehicle purchase involve you cost-analyzing every individual part of your car versus other cars in it's class? Of course not.

I know that a 33k Mazda3 and a 33k Honda Civic are "similar", but neither of them are exactly worth the same 33 thousand dollars. But who cares, really? Ultimately, even a 33k purchase is a "throw" away. You're not gonna compare control arm thickness to find the better value, and you're not gonna examine where the materials came from.