I felt I had to share this. I once wrote an essay for one of Glen Yeffeth’s ‘Smart Pop’ series of books which asked the same question there that Batman in this clip asks at the end.
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.