Dying for the cause: The rationality of martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2020-01-17 DOI:10.1177/1043463119900327

Andrew Greenland, Damon Proulx, D. Savage

引用次数: 7

Abstract

This article explores the impact that belief in an infinite afterlife has on end-of-life decisions, specifically on those viewed at the extreme, such as martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators. We extend a simplified expected utility-based model to include variations of infinitely rewarding afterlife’s and explore how this may impact the expected utility and rationality of earthly actions and decisions of individuals when the expected utility payoff is infinite. We show that the decision process for suicide and euthanasia is closely linked to martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators, such that all these individuals make rational decisions to regards to the end of their own life.

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为事业而死:烈士、自杀式炸弹袭击者和自焚者的合理性

这篇文章探讨了对无限来生的信仰对临终决定的影响，特别是对那些被视为极端的人的影响，如烈士、自杀式炸弹袭击者和自焚者。我们扩展了一个简化的基于预期效用的模型，将无限回报的来生的变化包括在内，并探讨了当预期效用回报是无限的时，这可能如何影响预期效用和个人世俗行为和决策的合理性。我们表明，自杀和安乐死的决策过程与烈士、自杀式炸弹袭击者和自焚者密切相关，因此所有这些人都会对自己的生命结局做出理性的决定。

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Rationality and Society SOCIOLOGY-

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1.50

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期刊介绍： Rationality & Society focuses on the growing contributions of rational-action based theory, and the questions and controversies surrounding this growth. Why Choose Rationality and Society? The trend toward ever-greater specialization in many areas of intellectual life has lead to fragmentation that deprives scholars of the ability to communicate even in closely adjoining fields. The emergence of the rational action paradigm as the inter-lingua of the social sciences is a remarkable exception to this trend. It is the one paradigm that offers the promise of bringing greater theoretical unity across disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, cognitive psychology, moral philosophy and law.