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I think you'll find that if you qualify statements about people with: 'with what they can see about the present state of the universe' you can say that everyone in every situation always makes rational choices.

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Holy [censored]! I agree!

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I don't, but that's cool. I think non-rational behaviors still follow enough of a pattern that we can map most actions to either immediate self-interest or to learned or neurotic behaviors in response to previous experiences. I wouldn't go so far as to qualify them as even emotionally rational, but it's a much better idea than plain rational choice theory, which is junk.

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