Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
> 	And so I'm saying that there are people for whom working towards
> changing the future for those hundreds of years down the road may
> actually be beneficial to themselves (in this life). Therefore, that
> person is acting rationally - contrary to somebody's assertion.

Touche.  I should have read your post more carefully.

> 	I never cared for the usage of the term in economics. It's often
> inconsistent with what most people consider rational.

I agree with that.  I basically use the term only in your sense as well, 
and substitute some synonym when I mean in in the economic sense.

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