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"Mr. Burton! You are not brought upon this world to get it!"
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"Mr. Burton! You are not brought upon this world to get it!"
Because you're looking for rationality in irrational behavior.
If I may... the term "irrational behavior" is entirely accurate, but it describes what the behavior isn't, rather than what it is.
He's looking for rationality from emotional behavior. In the extreme cases it is also from mob behavior, from behavior of people who have reached a state of nigh-ecstatic excitement - the analogy to religion is not too far off in that sense.
One does not "get it", or grok in fullness, unless one reaches such a state. Otherwise, understanding of this is in an academic sense - you understand that it happens, and why it happens in clinical terms, but you don't viscerally understand the state of the people involved.
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sabrinathecat
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Gosh, you make me sound like a couple of the lab geek "Squints" from Bones.
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