“All compassion, all sympathy is irrational. That’s the point. Love is irrational. The rational is stressing I-thou opposites. The mind is in the world of separateness and angular structures. It’s a world put together in a way that can be calculated. Compassion, love–these jump mathematics.” - Sarah Lawrence College for women, professor Joseph Campbell

 

Mutually Assured Destruction against strangers is bad morality, bad moral choice, irrational.

Love and compassion of helping strangers have freedom and clean water to drink is good morality, good moral choice, irrational.