Rationale, not Rational

Fanatical Apathy has a metaphor and a lesson for us all:

Imagine you're at a party, when your friend Jon gets a paper-cut his hand. It was probably those cheap, overly stiff cocktail napkins that are to blame, but that's not so important right now. After a brief flurry of suggestions, your friend Josh takes charge of the situation and attempts to help Jon...

...by severing his arm at the elbow...

By all means check out the whole piece, but if you're really short on time, here's the conclusion:

At some point, somebody's gotta say, "Hey, cut it out, dude. You're hurting Jon." Sadly, you may have to risk bringing Jon's morale down if you have any interest in saving his life. So you'd might as well go ahead and say it. As a longtime and avid party-goer, I know this for a fact: Once someone loses a limb, most social events kinda lose their momentum anyway