Quote Originally Posted by TomeGnome View Post
I AM invoking common sense for both. I never said that I thought Furious Finish should make one fatigued and overrule exhaustion.
That's exactly what your first scenario is saying here:

1) Free rage cycling since one allows raging while fatigued and the other overrides the "exhausted" clause since it supersedes normal circumstances.
Hence the dichotomy between applying and ignoring common sense.

Quote Originally Posted by TomeGnome View Post
You never responded to the reverse, where after resting while exhausted you become fatigued. It never says you stop being exhausted.
Indeed it does not, which is one more consequence of applying strict RAW without regard to common sense.