The Rationalist's Superiority

All rationalists are intellectually superior to all non-rationalists by default, no matter how little or much an individual rationalist has reasoned out or how much unconfirmed or assumed "knowledge" a non-rationalist has acquired, but if truth matters--and if truth has no objective meaning in the sense of existential significance, nothing does, for all things hinge on logical truths and possibilities--then non-rationalists have squandered their lives in pathetic apathy or in emotionalistic or assumption-driven delusion.  In either case, non-rationalists have no deep value just because they believe they do, and in either case rationalists are intellectually superior at a minimum even if they do not have superior existential value.  There is nothing for anti-rationalists to stand on that does not disprove their own ideas or that is not sheer falsity and self-deception.  Far from being arrogant if they realize these things, those who truly understand reason and who avoid assumptions are simply seeing this aspect of reality as it is.

All genuine rationalists can both rejoice in their submission to and connection with reason as more than a methodological means to an end, but the very core of all metaphysical and epistemological realities.  They are also free to rejoice in their intellectual superiority over anti-rationalists, the philosophically apathetic, and people who think themselves to be rational as they make a horde of glaring and often false, destructive assumptions.  Arrogance is thinking of oneself more highly than one's metaphysical/epistemological limitations or moral status support; one can rightly recognize one's rationality while rightly recognizing the stupidity of anti-rationalists, so this on its own is far from arrogance.  It is living for the truth.  Someone who cannot understand the difference is lost indeed.

In a world full of people whose words and actions strongly suggest they truly believe they are superior or inferior to others based on arbitrary or irrelevant things like their economic status, job prestige, gender, race, age, real or perceived attractiveness, sex appeal, or other factors that have nothing to do with the only characteristics of a person that could matter (philosophical accuracy and moral character), it is still controversial to simply admit that non-rationalists by logically necessity either have no value or lesser value than rationalists.  If truth matters, it is the thorough rationalists alone who have intentionally made themselves familiar with it and who have sought it free from personal and cultural delusions, so of course they would not just be superior intellectually and in the sense of philosophical clarity, but they would literally have more value as people than anti-rationalists do (very young children and those with mental impairments that prohibit them from grasping more than basic philosophical facts would be the only non-rationalists exempt from this).

Their only hope for having any sort of value lies in human rights thay could never even understand apart from reason and that, thanks to human epistemological limitations, cannot be ultimately proven or disproven.  Even then, they would be too blinded by assumptions, ideological hypocrisy, or apathy to identify their own human rights even if these rights could be logically proven to exist.  To even be a non-rationalist, one must literally oppose or even just not pursue genuine alignment with reason, and all who do not embrace rationalism are by default using reason in a futile effort to refute reason or the true logical ramifications of ideas and experiences.  Only a permanent, holistic devotion to rationalism will ever get someone past the recognition of a handful of self-verifying logical axioms to more specific truths about reason itself and other things alike.  Still, non-rationalists refuse this with or without social prompting.

Instead of just aligning with reason, most people are so concerned about how they feel about themselves or about how others perceive them that they will only try to act like they were actually the rational ones the whole time, when their worldviews are full of contradictions, believed on faith (including faith in things like the existence of other people or the idea that morality exists or does not exist), and selectively believed or acted upon as is most convenient for them.  The desire to feel justified is so strong in many non-rationalists that they will quite literally impale themselves on their swords of false philosophies rather than just walk away from the swords altogether.  They could just become intellectually superior to their former selves and to other people who are anti-rationalists, but their desire to be justified in embracing whatever they wish to be true outweighs their desire for truth, if they have such a desire.