[meteorite-list] Lighten up, it's just semantics

[Darren Garrison]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:34:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>Life is too short to get bent out of shape over such
>things.

Okay, which massively popular antiscientific, antieducational idiocies is it
okay to get bent out of shape of, and which should be simply allowed to fester
like the oozing diseases that they are?  Why is it so bad to wish-- with the
vast amounts of information available to hundreds of millions of the world's
population at a few keystrokes-- that the majority of those people still didn't
have the intellectual depth beyond that of a medieval pesant?  In an age when
there is far more information available to far more people than at any other
time in human history, most people choose to be barely literate twits.
Shouldn't that bend one out of shape?  Would not the world be much better off if
more people with access to an education choose to educate themselves?

People living in horrible conditions in horrible thrid world countries I can
excuse for still living in superstition and ignorance.  People that live in rich
first world countries have no excuse.