Is practicality the true measure of sanity?
It would depend on how you define sanity. If you go by an older definition, which suggests sanity is defined as a worldview which enables the individual to accomplish and complete that which they desire to do, and brings to them the desired results, then you could make an excellent case for practicality being a good measure. By the same token, the most recently accepted definition of insanity that I have heard states that insanity is performing the same action as before and expecting a different result. Again, practicality can be a useful rubric for determining sanity. By contrast, an often used definition of sanity which, paraphrased, states that sanity is the worldview in which the individual agrees with the majority of the populace on the tenants of reality. Things like “Gravity Works”, “The Sky is Blue”, “I shouldn’t murder people” and the like… by this definition, absolutely not. Practicality isn’t something the Vox Populi has ever been good at, and under this definition of sani
