(March 23, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Smaug Wrote: By normal I mean statistically-normal or average. Which in a non-rigorous way (and I don't speak rigoruosly here) may be equal to "popular" in some sence. Internal struggle may cause you to think of some things in more or less serious way but it's clearly not the average case. If it were we would have had suicidal majority. And I repeat that when it comes to, say, actually putting a razor against your throat people are known to panic in the very last moment often when nothing for them can be already done.
None of which gets you any closer to proving I'm a fool.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
