Doc Savage Fan: I don't know what motivates me...I am what I am and I accept that.
M: First off, while I am glad you answered my question I had no particular person in mind when I asked. I was also asking myself.
DSF: One could say that I'm a hardwired automaton unlikely to change one wit and they wouldn't be far from the truth. All an ignorant nobody like me can hope for is mercy.
M: I believe we aren't hard wired, but trapped by our unconsciousness and that makes it very difficult but not impossible to change. Thus the only mercy you will get from me is what I give myself.
DSF: As far as your question goes "So what would change about your attitude toward climate warming if you didn't know anything?" I don't know anything...so nothing would change. Is that a trick question?
M: No. But if you know nothing how do you have an attitude that won't change? Wouldn't you claim you have no attitude if you have no knowledge? I think you show an attitude that is different from mine and like all rose colored lenses viewing, don't know it. My point was that we seem not to see our own unconscious motivations because we don't want to. I note, for example, that a bird just flew into my redwood tree. I used up so much sugar thinking what to write that I had to shift to looking at the garden to get some rest.
M: First off, while I am glad you answered my question I had no particular person in mind when I asked. I was also asking myself.
DSF: One could say that I'm a hardwired automaton unlikely to change one wit and they wouldn't be far from the truth. All an ignorant nobody like me can hope for is mercy.
M: I believe we aren't hard wired, but trapped by our unconsciousness and that makes it very difficult but not impossible to change. Thus the only mercy you will get from me is what I give myself.
DSF: As far as your question goes "So what would change about your attitude toward climate warming if you didn't know anything?" I don't know anything...so nothing would change. Is that a trick question?
M: No. But if you know nothing how do you have an attitude that won't change? Wouldn't you claim you have no attitude if you have no knowledge? I think you show an attitude that is different from mine and like all rose colored lenses viewing, don't know it. My point was that we seem not to see our own unconscious motivations because we don't want to. I note, for example, that a bird just flew into my redwood tree. I used up so much sugar thinking what to write that I had to shift to looking at the garden to get some rest.