[FoRK] Baseline for calling out the issue

[Lion Kimbro]

On Dec 3, 2007 10:43 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Lion Kimbro wrote:
> >   Deify, mystify -->  This is done by every movie that makes a point.
>
> Of course you would think that, because you see mystification
> everywhere.  It's a sort of meta-pathology in whatever this complex
> of yours is...

  What?

  When the Golden Compass uses a shower of golden sparkly
  lights to symbolize the quest for Truth -- it's not a "mystification?"


> >   Respect and veneration for nature, environment, and the Earth are
> >   genuinely important.  I challenge you to show otherwise.
>
> See, there's a problem;  in addition to demoting objective reality to
> epistemological equivalence with the subjective, you simultaneously
> confuse subjective quality with something objective.  "Genuinely
> important?"  That's a purely subjective thing.  It's not subject to
> proof, demonstration, etc.

  Let me get this clear:

  You believe it is **merely subjective** that humanity depends on
  the health of the Earth (ecosystems, trees, plants and animals, etc.,.)?