What Does It Mean to Be a Rational Person?
Based on an appearance on the Pascal’s Wager podcast, November 2024. This is not a transcript but a reconstruction of the main ideas from the conversation. Video: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LINK Rationality as a Bludgeon Start with an uncomfortable observation: the word “rationality” is today most often deployed irrationally. In media discourse it has become a weapon — a way to stigmatise opponents rather than describe a genuine quality of thought. The people who shout loudest about rationality typically make no effort to justify their use of the term or to build even a minimal conceptual framework. ...