Quote:That's essentially saying "If something can't be accomplished in our lifetime we shouldn't bother at all."
No, it's saying that I am not going to set a specific goal for perfection when I know that it is not at all possible. This is not to say that you should not strive to improve upon areas of your life. I know that I could never possibly defy the laws of gravity and fly to the moon under my own power without aid, so I would never realistically attempt to do so or even set it as a life goal of mine. I would suggest that this concept is at the very root of atheism itself, realism.