Tree of life not real (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, February 21, 2014, 02:22 (3906 days ago) @ David Turell

David: You are describing incompetent, immoral people. Perhaps that is why the sciences are populated with so many atheists; no basis in ethical living. And you are describing deliberate incompetent thought. Medicine is somewhat different, at least at the practice level: folks might have a good background of training but can't think their way out of a paper bag. I know of one instance when the professors spotted that in one of the fellows in my internship group. They talked him into going into research instead of practice, and he made a wonderful research scientist. Considering how this country has changed, I doubt that can be done now. I am thinking of the grade creep, every one is marvelous fallacy, no competition environment caused by all the liberals who run establishment education. I suspect that you and I are very similar in our philosophy of life.-Quite probably. I have no faith in public education anymore, even at the undergrad+ level. Education no long teaches how to think, but rather what to think. So many of the students I have been in classes with over the last few years are what I would consider borderline mentally handicapped (trying to be a little PC here) for their age. Unfortunately, I doubt that many of them even recognize the ethical implications of their actions. The world philosophy at this point is 'fake it til you make it' and 'get everything you can no matter the cost'. -The unfortunate side-effect is that the people moving into the research positions are coming up with that attitude, and it is ruining what should be an objective field.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.