A unified theory of reasonableness - and how to be unreasonable for the right reasons. We're
living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration gun control to climate
change civil debate has gone out the window. Manners order and respect are being eroded. Why
can't we all be reasonable? >The trouble is what's reasonable to one person is outrageous to
another. Is it okay to let children play in the backyard while others are working from home? To
do your makeup on a train or recline your seat on an airplane? What's the right way to
breastfeed? To protect your neighborhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a
world where we all think we're being reasonable how can we figure out what's right? Looking
back through history and around the world Kirsty Sedgman set out to discover how unfairness
and discrimination got baked into our social norms dividing us along lines of gender class
disability sexuality race... Instead of measuring human behavior against outdated standards
of rules and reason On Being Unreasonable argues that sometimes we need to act unreasonably to
bring about positive change.
