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Trump, Jihad, Sharia, Intolerance: Why Indians Must Learn A Little Unreasonableness

R JagannathanFeb 01, 2016, 10:13 PM | Updated Feb 12, 2016, 05:22 PM IST
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.







So long as you have 3 percent of the population not eating GMO, the whole population will switch to that. For example, 70 percent of imported meat in the UK is halal while 3 percent of the population eats halal…. Peanuts are disappearing from schools in the US, even though a very small fraction of people are allergic to peanuts and there are no peanuts. You see the asymmetry? The more people talk about GMO, the more some people will become obsessively organic.













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