Many uses of the word “rational” here were fine (“rational economic agent” is understandable), but others really bothered me (“It is distasteful and a little bit contradictory to the spirit of rationality to believe it should lose out so badly to simple emotion”—why perpetuate the Spock myth? I want to show this to my friends!). I have no specific suggestion at hand, but circumlocuting around the word in some of the cases above would bring the article from excellent to perfection.
Many uses of the word “rational” here were fine (“rational economic agent” is understandable), but others really bothered me (“It is distasteful and a little bit contradictory to the spirit of rationality to believe it should lose out so badly to simple emotion”—why perpetuate the Spock myth? I want to show this to my friends!). I have no specific suggestion at hand, but circumlocuting around the word in some of the cases above would bring the article from excellent to perfection.