What is "rational motive"

Usage examples of "rational motive".

You used to call persons who stole, evidently without any rational motive, kleptomaniacs, and when the case was clear deemed it absurd to punish them as thieves.

One that a simple rational motive, like keepin' a trade secret, can produce very odd results.

No rational motive could have drawn me on after that hideous suspicion of prints and the creeping dream-memories it excited.

Because Stout, a muscular dwarf in his fifties, could have no rational motive for sitting where he was sitting, Cal squinted incredulously at the apparition.

Since there was no rational motive for anyone wanting to kill him, it stood to reasoa that the murders had been committed by someone who was mentally unbalanced, someone with an imagined grievance against him.

Or it could be a maniac who might not have any rational motive to -' 'I don't think that's the case here,' Dana said.

It had seemed so incongruous and devoid of rational motive that Freem had been skeptical, advising the staff not to accepting anything as final until reliable confirmation was received.

This burning desire of his was something greater than any merely pragmatic or rational motive.