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The person who's extremely reasonable
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or the person who has a hair-trigger temper?
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Well, I'm going to pick on a reasonable person
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because the unreasonable person
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might do unreasonable things.
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And this is faintly paradoxical, but often to be irrational,
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or at least to have a reputation for mild irrationality,
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gives you an edge.
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Now, this isn't focus of provocation
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but this has also been presented
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in the theory of why people fall in love.
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Suppose you're choosing who to devote your life to,