“Being rational is a moral imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.” – This is Charlie’s twist on Immanuel Kant, the eighteenth-century German philosopher, who argued that reason is the source of all morality. Being rational, to Kant and Charlie, means ignoring our emotions, and following logic and reason in making our decisions (sounds a lot like Charlie talking about making a stock purchase). A “moral imperative” is a strongly felt principle originating inside a person’s mind that compels that person to act or not act; and according to Kant and Charlie, to do otherwise
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