Pelosi tearing up the paper in Congress was entirely rational behaviour, or was it the action of an angry child?

 But whenever one  actually sets about the task of defending the statement that mental events cause physical events, what is at issue always turns out to be a distinctively methodological question: 

When we set about explaining the actions of other human beings, to what extent must we employ our own, perhaps entirely parochial, standards for determining what counts as rational behavior?

Employing my ow  entirely parochial, standards for determining what counts as rational behavior, I would count her action as that of an angry child?