2. If man is rational why do some public officials become corrupt and go against their intellect and become irrational? How does their philosophy of life or their educational upbringing or sense of values shaped the kind of life they lived?

I strongly believe that rationality is quite dependent on individuality. Individual being is very different from the rest of the people, for each one has a character pattern. For me, this character pattern is called personality, and this is very complex as it may seem. This complexity is being influenced by the different categories of behavior and attitudes. Whatever these attitudes and behavior are, they are much more presented in various situations in different times and attributes. Indeed, these are called subjectives. What I mean subjectives is that our behavior and attitudes are relative or personal. By this, the behavior of a person is individualized. What I mean here is that each person is different. Each exhibits various characters that make them dissimilar to the other people. Thus, when one person or politician would corrupt or steal the money of the Philippines, it is just a representation on how his rationality works in him or her. Though he or she steals money from the government, it does not mean that he goes against his or her intellect. It is just that the intellect is influenced by his or her personal understanding (subjectives). He or she is aware of what she or he does. In other words, a person’s reason or intellect can be corrupted by the dark side of him. I am talking about the duality of life –the good or the bad. With simple clearly demarcated choices, people are often consistent and their choices transitive. So, if one thinks badly, he is actually bad. If one thinks good things, he is good. However, there are many cases in the field and laboratory where these conditions are violated. Calculation and thinking are demonstrably human skills, but their range is limited. Herbert Simon describes humans as procedurally rational but always limited to what can be known and processed. They don’t want to contradict their preferences, but may do so given limited ability to handle information even when it is available. He refers to this as bounded rationality; that is, bounded by the capacity of the brain. People can have good reasons for acting even if they are instrumentally wrong. Whatever it is, the reason still presents that fact that rationality is much more dependent on how one conceives and perceives things.