No, Actually I’m Pretty Fine With My Emotions And Everything Else

“You’re being irrational. That person is being irrational. Those people are being irrational.”

We all know the drill. There’s a discussion or an argument, often about politics, and then it verges into that special brand of stupid where someone declares that A) the people they disagree with areirrational, and B) Imply directly or indirectly that they themselves are thus rational. This is intended to end the argument.

Usually –but not always – the person who invokes the argument is really just...