(December 21, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(December 21, 2014 at 3:58 am)mralstoner Wrote: I find your fatalism disturbing.
It's hardly fatalism. Can I prevent a nuclear strike? Or a solar flare? How about harden infrastructure from same?
I can do those things about as well as I can prevent earth from being struck by a life I extinguishing asteroid.
I'm not going to lose sleep over it. However, I do believe in disaster preparedness, and that's something I am empowered to do.
That was probably his point. You do what you can, not nothing.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.