“It is the measure of how much society cares about something.
This is a brutal yet obvious point, which many are motivated to deny.
With this audience, I hope, I can simply state it and move on. It’s not as if you thought “society” was intelligent, benevolent, and sane up until this point, right?”—saying that a non-intelligent object can “care” about something is strange.
Also, your position of no one using the logic for feeding is clearly distorted—I hear from time to time from not-so-stupid people that it is merely an artifact of city life that we buy food because it is simpler and we really should spend some of our time to grow edible plants instead, and quite a lot people actually do that, actually waste their time on growing onion instead of buying onion THAT NOT BEING THEIR MAIN PROFESSION.
“It is the measure of how much society cares about something.
This is a brutal yet obvious point, which many are motivated to deny.
With this audience, I hope, I can simply state it and move on. It’s not as if you thought “society” was intelligent, benevolent, and sane up until this point, right?”—saying that a non-intelligent object can “care” about something is strange.
Also, your position of no one using the logic for feeding is clearly distorted—I hear from time to time from not-so-stupid people that it is merely an artifact of city life that we buy food because it is simpler and we really should spend some of our time to grow edible plants instead, and quite a lot people actually do that, actually waste their time on growing onion instead of buying onion THAT NOT BEING THEIR MAIN PROFESSION.