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Since the Enlightenment, reason has been falsely understood as the best vehicle to an ethical world.

Education is just a tool. It’s not inherently good. After all, Nazism was particularly popular among German intelligentsia.

MYTH: Reason alone can lead us to goodness.

Something is “rational” if it advances a certain goal, whether or not that goal is moral or immoral. 

MYTH: Evil is irrational. In fact, evil acts are often quite “reasonable” indeed. That doesn’t make them right.   

Committing crimes—even violent ones—can be quite rational, showing that morality and reason are sometimes in conflict.

Reason can be made to serve both good and evil. In other words, what is “rational” is not always what is moral and good. 