Rational Anti-Furry

A very small portion of the anti-furry 'cult' that is actually knowledgable unlike the 7-11 olds and the adults that won't grow up out there, AKA the general anti-furry 'community'. These people don't dislike furries in general, except for the ones actually reasonable to hate (eg. P3dos, Corn artists, Toxic people, Fetishizers, and more). Even if they hate them, they don't usually raid/nuke or spy on furry servers, nor do they shove it up the furry's face or do anything to the extreme level about it.

person: look it's an anti-furry
rational anti-furry: no no you misunderstood, i only hate the weird people
person: oh yeah lemme guess, the furry members of lgbtq+?
rational anti-furry: no
person: the femboys or tomgirls?
rational anti-furry: no
rational anti-furry: i'm just talking about the weird ppl that be toxic and make graphic content of it and stuff
person: *realizes* ohhh i understand now
rational anti-furry: :)

by anonymous94536 January 18, 2024

Rationality Blind Spot

The failure to recognize when your own commitment to being "rational" has itself become an irrational, identity-driven posture. It's the inability to see that your hyper-rational, emotion-dismissing approach might be blinding you to important factors like empathy, ethics, or social context, and that this inflexibility is itself a form of bias. You're so busy looking for emotional bias in others, you don't see the cold, calculating bias in yourself.

Example: "He proposed solving the budget deficit by auctioning off national parks, citing pure economic rationality. When people called it heartless, he accused them of emotional thinking. His rationality blind spot prevented him from seeing that his model completely ignored the non-monetary value of heritage, ecology, and public well-being—a massive irrational omission."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Rationality Forging

Creating a counterfeit version of a rational process—a fake cost-benefit analysis, a rigged Bayesian update, or a distorted decision matrix—where the numbers, probabilities, or utilities are invented or manipulated to justify an irrational desire. It's dressing up a gut feeling or a bias in the ceremonial robes of rational choice theory to make it look dignified and unassailable.

Example: "He forged a rationality to buy the jet ski. His spreadsheet assigned an 85% utility score to 'summer fun,' quantified 'midlife crisis avoidance' as a $5,000 value, and listed the risk of drowning as 'negligible (0.1%).' The output said 'BUY.' It wasn't reasoning; it was a numerically themed birthday wish he'd typed into Excel." Rationality Forging

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Rationality Crafting

The sophisticated design of a framework or worldview that uses the language and tools of rationality (calibration, probabilistic thinking, epistemic humility) not to seek truth, but to protect a core set of beliefs or identities. It's building an elaborate, self-consistent rational fortress where updates are only allowed in certain directions, and all counter-evidence is processed through defensive filters labeled "skepticism."

Example: "He crafted a rationality around his political tribalism. He used Bayesian terms to dismiss opposing studies ('low prior'), framed hypocrisy charges as 'whataboutism' to avoid engagement, and used 'steelmanning' only on his own side's weakest arguments. It was a formidable, internally consistent system crafted for defense, not discovery." Rationality Crafting

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Rationalized Bias

A sophisticated form of self-deception where one's pre-existing prejudices, desires, or ideological commitments are retroactively supported by elaborate, internally consistent rationalizations. The person constructs a logical-sounding edifice to justify a conclusion they arrived at for emotional or tribal reasons, believing themselves to be purely rational. The bias lies in the motivated reasoning that builds the rationale.

Example: A person opposed to immigration reform crafts a complex argument citing selective economic studies, abstract principles of sovereignty, and crime statistics. This Rationalized Bias allows them to believe their stance is reasoned, when its roots are in unexamined cultural anxiety and identity politics. The logic serves the bias, not the truth.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Rationalization of Evil

The psychological process of concocting emotionally plausible, self-serving excuses to justify one's own or one's group's harmful, cruel, or immoral actions. It uses the language of reason—practical necessity, greater good, victim-blaming, or righteous retaliation—to evade moral responsibility and soothe cognitive dissonance. The rationale is crafted after the decision to do harm, not as its guide.

Example: A colonial administrator rationalizing the exploitation of a colony might tell himself, "We're bringing them civilization and saving them from themselves. It's for their own good, even if they don't understand it yet." This Rationalization of Evil dresses up greed and violence in the noble costume of a "civilizing mission."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026

Rationalothinking

The groupthink of self-proclaimed rationalist or "skeptic" communities, where the performance of rationality (using specific jargon, invoking Bayesian probability, dismissing emotion) becomes more important than the substance of truth. The group develops orthodox beliefs about topics like AI risk, effective altruism, or libertarianism, and deviations are dismissed as "irrational" or "motivated reasoning." The shared identity as "rationalists" prevents rational scrutiny of their own sacred cows.

Example: In an online rationalist community, a member questions the group's orthodoxy about the near-term certainty of superhuman AI. They are immediately flooded with responses citing Yudkowsky, Bostrom, and complex probability notation. This Rationalothinking uses the aesthetic of rationality to enforce conformity, attacking the questioner's in-group status rather than engaging the argument on its merits.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026