fnxtr
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Joined: June 2006
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My response to Kris's latest screed about science and happiness.
Well, Kris, maybe if you backed up your unsupported "many people" assertion in the first place, we'd have some jumping off point for discussion. As it is, you made an unsubstantiated claim, you got disagreed with, and you went off the rails with "Are you saying... always...always...always...?"
No wonder people get annoyed with you. You're still "debating" like a 10th-grade chess club nerd.
Of course there are happy subsistence farmers in the world.
The point <i>you</i> missed is that trying to understand <i>how stuff works</i>, which is all science is really meant to do, has given most of the world longer, healthier lives. A lot of people are happy about that.
If you want to get into distribution of wealth and cultural independence and the structure of societies and the meaning of "happiness" and overpopulation, that's an entirely different argument unrelated to <i>how science works</i>.
But if you have changed your argument from "scientists are mean" (My answer: Yup. Tough darts. Suck it up.) to "science doesn't have all the answers", well... duh. Is Mozart better music than Einsturzende Neubauten? Not a scientific question.
Most of us here understand the boundaries of the scientific endeavour. I don't know what makes you think we don't.
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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory
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