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Acting irrationally without applying thought beforehand can lead to many issues in our world today. People tend to do things impulsively, disregarding the consequences that their actions may cause. How does acting this way affect not only you, but the others around you? In a well developed essay, answer this question. Synthesize information from four different sources to expand on your answer. Remember to explain how  this behavior affects our society.

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Acting irrationally without applying thought beforehand can lead to many issues in our world today. People tend to do things impulsively, disregarding the consequences that their actions may cause. How does acting this way affect not only you, but the others around you? In a well developed essay, answer this question. Synthesize information from four different sources to expand on your answer. Remember to explain how  this behavior affects our society.

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This is yet another example of completely irrational behavior by a single individual. In the movie, the character Patrick Bateman performs a series of heinous crimes for no apparent reason. Of course to Patrick, all of his actions are justified at the moment. In this particular scene Patrick decides to brutally murder one of his fellow workers. It is tough to tell his motives, but we can infer that the general countenance of his coworker aggravated him. We might assume that his actions regarding the playing of the CD and his pathetic attitude due to the alcohol might have caused it. Regardless it is insane to think it is justified to murder someone over such a small problem. This supports our idea that, as humans, we do irrational things impulsively because we feel the need to immediately satisfy our intense emotions , sometimes by any means possible, even if the consequences are not worth the satisfaction we will receive.

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In 2013, a man in his mid-thirties was coming back from a local pub after drinking over three pints of beer. While driving, he decided to respond to a text and crashed head on into another car. The woman in the other car died from her injuries in the hospital, and the man survived. This is a great example of how people don't think about the consequences of their decisions. The driver decided to drink and drive, then text and drive, two very selfish acts which endanger everyone around him. His actions led to the very unfortunate death of an innocent person.

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A woman's family has released horror photos of the drink drive crash that killed her after the man responsible was jailed for six years.

Solicitors' clerk Rachel Titley was just 28 when Craig Eccleston-Todd's hit her head-on returning from a pub on the Isle of Wight.

Now the victim's family has allowed Hampshire Police to show the mangled wreckage of their two cars as a warning to others.

A jury heard Eccleston-Todd, 27, from Newport, Isle of Wight, was "reading or replying" to a text from his wife at the wheel when the crash happened in October 2013.

He had also drunk "three or four" pints and drifted across the white line on a bend near the town of Yarmouth.

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This was Rachel Titley's blue Daihatsu Cuore after the crash that killed her. Her family allowed the photo to be released along with a picture of Eccleston-Todd's red Citroen Xsara

He denied causing death by dangerous driving but was found guilty at Portsmouth Crown Court.

Today he was jailed for six years and banned from driving for eight.

Following the sentence, Lindsay Pennell, senior crown prosecutor for Wessex, said: "Craig Eccleston-Todd's driving resulted in the tragic death of a young woman Rachel Titley, a death that could have been avoided.

"After spending the evening with friends at a pub, Mr Eccleston-Todd started his journey home from Yarmouth and, during the course of the journey, he received a text message.

"Mr Eccleston-Todd took the decision to pick up his mobile phone whilst driving and, either reading or replying to this text message, was so distracted that he failed to negotiate a left hand bend, crossing the central white line into the path of Miss Titley's oncoming car.

Police said Craig Eccleston-Todd had drunk three or four pints of lager then texted at the wheel on the way home

"Miss Titley was a 28-year-old solicitor's clerk, with a bright future ahead of her. She was also returning home having spent an enjoyable evening with friends and was driving responsibly.

"She had arranged to contact her friends when she got home to confirm that she had arrived safely. Her friends sadly never heard from her after they parted company.

"After hearing both the prosecution and the defence case, the jury at Portsmouth Crown Court was satisfied that Mr Eccleston-Todd was using his mobile phone to read or send a text message at the time of the collision and that in doing so his driving fell far below what was expected of a competent and careful driver and was dangerous.

"Miss Titley's death in these circumstances reiterates the danger of using a hand held mobile phone whilst driving. Our thoughts are with Miss Titley's family."

Pc Mark Furse, from Hampshire Constabulary's serious collision investigation unit, said that Eccleston-Todd, of Clifford Street, Newport, had drunk at least three to four pints of lager before he drove home.

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He said: "Our thoughts are with Rachel's family at this time. She had been out with friends at a pub in Shalfleet that evening, but had not had any alcohol. Our investigation showed that there was nothing she could have done to avoid the collision and sadly it cost her her life.

"Mr Eccleston-Todd had left work in Yarmouth and met with friends at a pub where he drank at least three to four pints of lager. He hadn't long left the pub to return home when the collision occurred at around 9.30pm.

"We weren't able to take breath or blood tests from him immediately and although blood taken several hours after the collision showed he was marginally under the limit, we maintain he would have been over the limit at the time of the collision and in summing up today, the judge agreed.

"The analysis of his phone records showed that he was texting on his phone around the time of the collision so it's highly likely this would also have contributed to his dangerous driving and loss of control."

As well as the prison term, Eccleston-Todd was disqualified from driving for eight years after which time he will have to complete an extended re-test.

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Pictured: Mangled wreckage of crash which killed young woman as drink driver is jailed for six years

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A woman's family has released horror photos of the drink drive crash that killed her after the man responsible was jailed for six years. Solicitors' clerk Rachel Titley was just 28 when Craig Eccleston-Todd's hit her head-on returning from a pub on the Isle of Wight.

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Excerpt: "For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but — I know not how or why it was - its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it; but gradually— very gradually — I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence."

This story also embodies the irrational behavior addressed by the prompt. The narrator succumbs to the influence of alcohol and indulges himself without thought of what his behavior was like when intoxicated. He drinks and becomes frustrated and angered by his animals. He cruelly maltreats them. He even gauges out the eye of his cat and later hangs it from a tree, simply because he knew it was the wrong thing to do. He drowns out his guilt with more alcohol. In the end, he kills his wife with an ax out of rage. He clearly did not think about what his actions would bring in the long run. His wife was dead, his cat was dead, and he was on death row for his crimes. This is what acting irrationally can do to our society.

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When a hedge-fund baby gets only a $200 cut from his weekly allowance, he goes into a rage and kills his father. This is an example of reacting irrationally because the long-lasting repercussions far outweighed the problem that he got angry over in the first place. This man's actions support the idea that people will act on impulse and not take time to realize the consequences that they and others must face until it is far too late.

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Thomas Gilbert Sr.'s body is taken by medical examiners.

The bratty 30-year-old son of a millionaire Manhattan hedge-fund founder was charged Monday with murdering his dad after the old man cut his allowance - by a measly $200, law-enforcement sources said.

Thomas Gilbert Jr. faces multiple charges including murder and criminal possession of a weapon after he allegedly fired a single shot at his father's head Sunday night.

The son, who just found out he was getting a $200 cut in his monthly allowance, asked his mother to go get him a sandwich so she'd be out of the family's tony Beekman Place apartment just before he pulled the trigger and executed his dad, sources told The Post.

"He was cutting his allowance. He had been giving him $2,400 a month for rent and $600 for spending money, and he was cutting that to $400 a month for spending money," a source said about
Thomas Gilbert Sr., founder of the Wainscott Capital hedge fund.

"They had argued about it before."

Gilbert Jr. shot his father about 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the family's posh pad at 20 Beekman Place with a high-powered .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol that he owned, police said.

Sources said they found the box the gun came in after Gilbert Jr. surrendered at his apartment at 350 W. 18th St. about 11 p.m. Sunday. Police also found two magazine clips and loose rounds scattered around his Chelsea pad.

It is still unclear whether he bought the gun legally.

Gilbert arrived at the apartment carrying the gun and, once inside, asked his mother to leave.

"He asked her to get [him] a sandwich so she wouldn't be there," the source said.

Gilbert Jr. fled after the shooting and was nabbed hours later at his apartment.

Cops were alerted to the killing when the victim's wife, Shelly, returned and discovered his body and called 911.

"My husband's been shot by my son!" she said.

He gave himself up at his apartment about 11 p.m. Sunday after cops pinged his cellphone and tracked him down.

He at first refused to come out when they banged on the door, but eventually surrendered.

The handsome Gilbert Jr. - a graduate of the Buckley School on the Upper East Side, Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts and Princeton - was a fixture on Manhattan's black-tie society circuit and was often photographed with a beautiful woman on his arm.

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Son allegedly killed hedge-funder dad after $200 allowance cut

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The bratty 30-year-old son of a millionaire Manhattan hedge-fund founder was charged Monday with murdering his dad after the old man cut his allowance - by a measly $200, law-enforcement sour...