(November 18, 2023 at 6:11 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(November 17, 2023 at 11:13 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Learning philosophy (maybe in a class, maybe not) may have great benefits, but they are not of the transactional, practical type. Expecting to get that sort of thing from a college class is not reasonable. The kind of benefits that one actually might get are not the kind of thing that practical societies tend to value.
When our Ethics Committee votes it has life and death benefits. They would be rather "practical".
And if you're brain-dead, having passed two tests for that, and someone is trying to keep you "alive" which happens all the time, more often in families "of faith" who really fundamentally don't buy that you will be going to heaven, the machines would be turned off. You really have no clue what happens in the real world, do you ?
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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