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by jatora 37 days ago
Pretty wild equivocation

by redefining "rational" to include anything originating from human biology, you conflate the origin of a thought with its logical validity

While its true that humans are biological entities influenced by emotion, "rationality" refers to a specific process of evaluating claims based on logic and evidence. to claim that feelings are "exactly as rational" as ideas simply because they share a common source in the brain is a category error. it’s like arguing that a car's exhaust is "exactly as functional" as its engine because both are composed of the same metal.