Believing in dull, barren, soul-dead Scientific Materialism is everyone's right, but

[haele]

11. I think you mean soul-dead Materialism. Science is not a philosophy. It's a process.

Being a skilled craftsman and getting something - usually money - in return for your labor is not the same as investing someone else's money to enrich yourself even more.

Materialism is a philosophy in which everything has a material value, or cost, and the point is to gather as much value for oneself as possible.

Science is the process of discovery in which a specified effect is proven to be the result of certain other known states because it can be replicated with those known states. It is not a philosophy. Just as Art is not a philosophy; Art is the means of creating unique effects without the need to provide proof or to replicate exactly.

Sorry to disagree slightly with you there.

I believe in Science (because I depend on it for my survival), however, I also believe that going about putting a cost on everything ensures that nothing ever has value other than that cost. Which is a sad, sad way to live.

Haele