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Re: Polymers- jello
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From: "Douglas Green" <dgreen@kos.net>
> I've seen absurdio ad reductio arguments proposed - things such as we
> breathe therefore we pollute.
As a general rule, people try to process an analog world with a digital
mind -- right/wrong, yes/no, good/bad. The truth is that almost everything
spans a continuum where we draw largely arbitrary lines. Different people
draw those lines in different places, of course, and that point moves in
different times and with different cultures and cohorts. Before you can even
ponder the continuum, though, you must establish the line, which is defined
by two points at the extreme ends. The reductio ab adsurdum you allude to is
just an establishing point.
Many of my readers are surprised -- astonished? -- to learn that I am
basically organic gardener. My objections are to the digital minded organic
followers. This is good, that is bad. If it is made in a factory, it's bad.
Period. If the factory is owned by Monsanto or Scotts, it is not only bad,
it is evil.
My daughter's in-laws are both limousine liberals, and they were stunned,
and offended, when she lost her cool recently and argued that I, a
troglodyte conservative Republican, was in fact far greener than they were.
We recycle and compost, use a clothesline, walk the mile to a small shopping
center nearby, keep our house in the low 60s in winter, none of which they
do. But I use Roundup and Sevin, so I am the enemy.
Yes, some misuse chemicals. Some misuse cars, too, and cars are not
ecologically friendly. But we work to solve the problems and educate people;
we don't ban cars. Not yet, anyway.
D
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