Human Rationality

If humans were truly rational, they'd likely have killed themselves ages ago. After all, life is intrinsically meaningless. In fact, the "meaning" in life is not only constructed, but also created out of nothing but intangible emotions. Like every other animal, humans live, eat, generate dung, reproduce and ultimately die. The cycle repeats itself. Over and over again.

Why one would continue playing this game seems to have no reason. The pattern repeats itself, with scarce change from one generation to the next. Indeed, there is little change even between tens of generations. Some would claim their faith in religion. Others claim faith in humans. Yet some will say they work for physical goods.

Note well, then, that all these are temporal. Religion will pass away. Humans are impermanent. Heck, one doesn't even own the goods once one's dead. It would therefore seem like the most obvious solution. If people didn't really like living life, the logical thing to do would be to simply lie down and die. Yet the majority choose not to do so. Clearly, there's irrationality at work here.