"Believing an action is a good idea or in your best interests when it actually isn't, or basing decisions on a warped perception of reality, is pretty much a textbook case of acting irrationally."
No. It is not. This is just a flawed definition you have invented on the go.
The people at Rapa NUI were totally rational about destroying trees to build Moais, because their model of the word implied God wanted that.
If the God Rapa Nui people believed in actually existed and he wanted to destroy trees for satisfaction, then it makes total sense to destroy all the trees.
No. It is not. This is just a flawed definition you have invented on the go.
Being rational means using reason, just that. But GIGO applies, your thinking process could be flawless but your assumptions could be wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
The people at Rapa NUI were totally rational about destroying trees to build Moais, because their model of the word implied God wanted that.
If the God Rapa Nui people believed in actually existed and he wanted to destroy trees for satisfaction, then it makes total sense to destroy all the trees.