Michael,

Thank you.

It is a bit frustrating to watch people keep tying themselves up in the same knots and treat anyone trying to point out the obvious as an idiot.

It seems once that little voice in the back of the head has learned its native tongue, the die is cast and they are hooked.

One thought that's been going through my head lately is that we've been trying to figure out morality for thousands of years, but we never go back to square one. As I keep pointing out, good and bad are not some cosmic duel between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. Like on and off are to a computer. Even bacteria get it.

All the higher order social functions evolved up out of that basic, organic switch, like a computer program is based on binary logic. Yet when we ignore that basic fact and try to construct a moral code and make sense of society, based on our own complex human relationships, desires and presumptions, it really is like assuming you can learn computer programing by playing video games and thinking the highest score must be the goal.

It's just on a totally different level, but not that hard to fathom, even if the particulars are quite complex. It just requires being very objective about our existence and that is emotionally difficult.

As it is, people just keep going around in circles and now many of us are back to Stoicism, aka, The Serenity Prayer.