corndog36 Wrote:So you would use a wet, rotted, bug infested, knotty log for your fire because you prefer that species over any other? I would choose my log based on it's own merit.
Depends on how wet. Rotted I'll stick in whenever, and buggy is irrelevant to what wood we actually get (having bugs in the winter is hell, fyi). But wet wood doesn't burn until it dries, and so i'll take dry wood over wet wood almost all of the time. I'll sometimes stick a not perfectly dry piece of birch on top of a few other pieces of wood and hope that it dries out and catches fire at some point
Knotty wood burns fine, but is a major hassle to split.Wetness really is the only attribute on which I may choose to use any dry piece of wood before it. When it comes to humans, I will look at those stuck in wheelchairs as so much less useful for a strenuous physical job than really anything *functional*.
Quote:Your concept of morality is flawed.
My morality changes according to resources available. Population crises in the form of population explosion? It is immoral to have an unsustainable number of babies (2 or more) until the population settles to the point that it can be sustained (easily).
If there is a population crisis in the form of us being near extinction: it is immoral to not have children if you can.
If my morality is flawed, then I am glad of it.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
