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Meta-comment: why ask "is it rational" rather than "should I take psilocybin" or "who should..." or "what are the pluses and minuses of..."?
"Do not ask whether it is “the Way” to do this or that. Ask whether the sky is blue or green. If you speak overmuch of the Way you will not attain it."
Because declaring something to universally belong to a category is much, much easier than specifying conditions under which it's X or Y.
It may or may not be rational to do something, but if we declare it to be inherently rational or irrational, we don't have to give it any further thought.
It's a basic form of the Oversimplification Fallacy.