A Common Enemy

A common tragedy or enemy can unite even unlikely allies, but there are no greater natural allies to each other than rationalists, and non-rationalists are the default ideological and perhaps personal enemies of every genuine rationalist.  By seeking after the objective truths of reason and submitting to them, a rationalist--all rationalists--share the deepest kind of philosophical bond.  They have discovered the only things of intrinsic truth, that which, though they were already relying on it metaphysically before they recognized it, can be ignored despite being of supreme significance and ultimate depth.  Reason is the utter heart of reality [1], and it governs all things other than itself.

By rejecting or ignoring the inherent truths of logical axioms and the stemming necessities, non-rationalists have either by an asinine passivity or intentional disregard failed to hold to, perhaps even to discover, the logical axioms that could not have been false, as well as the things which necessarily follow from them.  It is their alignment with the objective truths of logic that makes rationalists in the right, and it is the lack of this alignment, whatever the extent and whatever the ideological or personal motivation, that makes non-rationalists lesser than rationalists by virtue of denying or trivializing the only things that could not have been any other way.

In non-rationalists, all rationalists have a common enemy.  By being in the right, rationalists, to truly care about reality, would have to be against anyone who is in the wrong.  This does not have to entail any sort of hatred, although it absolutely could.  Not even showing supererogatory kindness, including that of mercy, to non-rationalists requires that one not despise them (and not just their false or assumed beliefs).  Either way, they could only be one's enemies.  Rejecting assumptions and errors is to reject epistemological and metaphysical falsehood, and to flee from this is to be at odds with the very foundation of what all except rationalists live for--contradictions, unverified ideas, emotionalism, pride, persuasion, convenience, and preference.

All rationalists have in each other the ultimate ally and in every non-rationalist, whether a family member or a total stranger, they have an opponent whether they like it or not.  It is still possible to be friends with these opponents, and maybe even close friends.  Nonetheless, the highest degree of friendship can only be experienced between rationalists.  There is no contradiction in being friends with someone in one regard and their adversary of sorts in another.  The greatest depths of relational connection are still barred to all except for fellow rationalists who are each other's brothers and sisters even if they have no awareness of each other.  Inversely, every non-rationalist, in being out of alignment with the truth, is not one of these figurative siblings.

[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-heart-of-all-things.html