(September 2, 2014 at 7:06 pm)PhiloTech Wrote: I am not fond of this whole "harsh word" thing. A person's worth is easily measurable, if you cannot employ common sense and reasoning you are in all terms worthless.
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If you cease to use reasoning or behavior that produces beneficial results then you are "without worth" int he simplest sense of the term.
I totally disagree. Even people who don't think rationally, as I would prefer them to do, still have value and worth. Not all knowledge is material and factual.
How we each deal with people is so varied and complex that purging it down to one metric for value is to me a gross oversimplification. I can stand to learn something from any- and everyone, regardless of their standpoint on reason, faith, or any other modality of thinking.
If reason alone is the metric for worthiness as a human, would you find Deep Blue more worthy than Kasparov?
