Rationality?

How do we justify killing? How do we justify torture? Those seem to be questions that come up when speaking of news stories in the last few weeks.

How do we justify killing? How do we justify torture? Questions we ask after events take place where we feel these questions must be answered. 

How do we justify killing? How do we justify torture? We say these questions as if they are necessary. As if justification makes it easier to do or makes it benevolent. 

What we should be doing is asking ourselves: What the hell happened to rationality?

These two questions in my opinion shouldn't even be asked. Far to often we say "How" and not "Why." When you say "Why do we justify killing?" or "Why do we justify torture."

Think about it.

We're not asking why because it's terrifying. Realizing the moment when you ask why instead of how recognizes that there's something wrong. Asking how means finding reasons to find our actions against the weakest acceptable as long as we find a "benevolent" reason to commit these acts.

We are suppose to be a rational society. Yet over fifty percent of our nation feel torture is justified. 

Why? Not how, why?

Here's what John McCain thinks, a literal P.O.W.

Yet we don't ask why? We ask how?

When police shoot within 2 seconds of arriving at a playground.

We ask how and not why.

How do we justify killings? How do we justify torture? We can come up with many reasons how to justify these actions, but when we ask why of these actions is when the nature of actions is challenged and if those actions taken were right or wrong.

It also makes us think from a first person perspective. Why do we means putting ourselves in that persons shoes, taking those actions, and emotions we would experience. How do we justify instead of why we justify in some ways as implicit it seems that we need to cover our actions.

I guess why is a little more of an accusation but with the gravity of these events shouldn't they be?

So we can make sense of it instead of blindly agreeing with actions taken and their aftermath.

Our rationality just seems applied without curiosity but with a way to ease our confusion. So we can just make sense of things and move on.

What the hell happened to Rationality?

We apply it irrationally.