RAT CHOICERS, AT IT AGAIN:
"People act to maximize their preferences."
Ah, well, it's true enough that in some situations, people act to maximize their (payoffs? I'm not sure how one maximizes their preferences... though one could optimize them, I guess). Except, as was constantly hammered home to me in my quantitative classes, in the instances when they don't, which is actually a rather large subset of political decisions, including, I think, voting in many instances. Then again, I'm not an Americanist, so I could be totally wrong about this.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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