Rational action (or value-rational action, wertrational) is a social action which is taken because it leads to a valued goal, but with no thought of its consequences and often without consideration of the appropriateness of the means chosen to achieve it ('the end sanctifies the means').
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“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)