[extropy-chat] Rational thinking

[Lee Corbin]

I have another, simple question.

Were the legendary founders of the United States who famously
pledged "our lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred honor" being
irrational?  I want to hear some good answers to that; I expect,
alas, rationalizations, which is what the mind churns out in order
to satisfy judgments reached by non-rational means.

What is the structural difference---biases aside---between their
sacrifices and those of Kamikaze pilots or those of suicide bombers?
Merely the *likelihood* of loss?

Lee