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CMU had me arrested and held in jail for a week though I had paid my bail because I complained too much about not being able to find an job opportunities with a CS degree. Everyone just says to go to the career center. Career center says they have nothing for me. Couldn't find anyone in the entire University who would act reasonably to anything that didn't benefit them directly.
Its sounds more like the definition of a prosocial person, not reasonable. I think there needs to be something in there about, say, enlightened self-interest as it relates to the community, rather than simply asserting that reasonable people think about the common good. In the economic sense, a common approach is to model reasonable people as trying to maximize their gain or utility, without much regard to the common…
Which is why "the economic sense" must not be applied unreasonably.
There could be a better term maybe. "Average" may actually work, or "well-adjusted". Maybe even "what would Benjamin Franklin Pierce (gen 50+) / Ted Mosby (others) do"
CMU had me arrested and held in jail for a week though I had paid my bail because I complained too much about not being able to find an job opportunities with a CS degree. Everyone just says to go to the career center. Career center says they have nothing for me. Couldn't find anyone in the entire University who would act reasonably to anything that didn't benefit them directly.
I feel like you must be leaving part of the story out - you don't get arrested for complaining...
'Reasonable' doesn't mean relaxed or even nice. It means being guided by reason, ie the application of logic to available evidence. Socrates was a reasonable person, and his insistence on being so made him a lot of enemies. It might be worthwhile to define this up front; this worthy advice seems to rest on an implicit understanding of 'reasonable' as meaning 'considerate' or 'not rocking the boat.'
- having sound judgement; fair and sensible: no reasonable person could have objected.
- based on good sense: it seems a reasonable enough request | the guilt of a person on trial must be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
- archaic: able to reason logically: man is by nature reasonable.
2: as much as is appropriate or fair; moderate: a police officer may use reasonable force to gain entry.
Thesaurus: sensible, rational, open to reason, full of common sense, logical, fair, fair-minded, just, equitable, decent; intelligent, wise, level-headed, practical, realistic; based on good sense, sound, judicious, well thought out, well grounded, reasoned, well reasoned, valid, commonsensical, advisable, well advised; tenable, plausible, feasible, credible, acceptable, admissible, believable
How is 'reasonable' different from 'rational'? And don't both these terms beg the question of ultimate ends and/or values?
It may also become more obvious from this other use of the word: "You may use reasonable force to defend your property". A "rational" force doesn't make much sense.
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I feel like you must be leaving part of the story out - you don't get arrested for complaining...
They frequently have students and alumni arrested. The message is clear: keep your mouth shut.
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I'd say you just exemplified the problem. While you view the election as proof of unreasonableness of half the voters, I see your outright dismissal as a clear inability to see an opposing view and hence unreasonable.
Maybe he didn't dismiss them outright. Maybe he looked at things from their perspective first, analyzed their beliefs and arguments and concluded that they did not make their decision based on facts[1] and rationality. [1]Unless you count "alternative facts" of course, in which case their viewpoint is just as valid as yours!
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
Something I'm slowly coming to realize is that unless you have a logically defensible moral position, it's hard to argue with people that disagree. Terms like reasonable are so flimsy it's hard to use it as a model to communicate with people that don't already agree with you. The successful operation of a principle like "reasonableness" requires an intake filter to suss out whether people joining the department rough…
Its sounds more like the definition of a prosocial person, not reasonable. I think there needs to be something in there about, say, enlightened self-interest as it relates to the community, rather than simply asserting that reasonable people think about the common good. In the economic sense, a common approach is to model reasonable people as trying to maximize their gain or utility, without much regard to the common…
Sure... And Ayn Rand will therefore tell you let that child drown if it isn't yours, you don't expect a reward, and rescuing it may get your shoes wet. Which is why "the economic sense" must not be applied unreasonably . There could be a better term maybe. "Average" may actually work, or "well-adjusted". Maybe even "what would Benjamin Franklin Pierce (gen 50+) / Ted Mosby (others) do"
If you are just making a caricature of her beliefs, is that what a reasonable person would do?