(August 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote:(August 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Another thought you might wish to consider: sometimes going for simple entertainment, in order to escape the day-to-day stresses or ennui of life, is not necessarily a useless thing.
Also, since when are we required to benefit all mankind? And since that is your standard, can you show specifically what you have done in that regard?
Or, alternatively, you could go easy on the sanctimony.
Again, if we're going to be sanctimonious like the fell you're quoting above, then every book, movie, and TV show ever, no matter how entertaining and well made, would be similarly useless.
As a musician myself, it's often seemed to me that the only thing my bands did at gigs was help people get away from the stresses of real life.
That may not help all mankind, but it surely is doing someone a good turn, y'know?
