Originally Posted by digitalMedia

With all due respect, I believe that Geshtinnanna was trying to point out that your initial post was caustic. It was condescending and dictatorial. It smacked of, dare I say it, preaching. What Geshtinnanna indicated was that a lot of people will summarily dismiss your ideas because of the way you've chosen to package them. Your response was combative.

My assumption is that you'd like your ideas to be judged on the intellectual content of your rhetoric and not just the emboldened veneer.

Now, as far as your observations, it seems to me that you're saying, "We, humanity, should be focusing our efforts and resources on sciences and technologies that are aimed at curing disease, space colonization, civil defense, etc. because instinctual survival is the only evidentiary constant in living things."

Is that right? Close?