10-03-2016, 07:44 AM
So people are pissing and moaning that they didn't get to measure the length of the balloon's tether? Should have anticipated that and made measuring it a part of the process. It's theatre anyway.
Ultimately, being an atheist, I will bemoan the influence of religious superstition, which this partly is. It is also largely due to the cheap thrills to be had by interfering with such a significant project and getting your 15 minutes of fame. So some people wanted to be able to stop and genuflect? On one level that would have been harmless enough but we are talking about a tiny minority of people who have sought every opportunity be contradictory. Didn't some of these people want to speak in court for ancient Hawaiian deities? That kind of nonsense is NOT harmless. You have to have some standards and enforce them. Society exists in order to make people, some of them at least, unhappy. Obviously rapists and murderers need to be made unhappy and for that I am glad, but it is a continuous spectrum. There will always be those who are left or right of center who feel the sting of not getting things their way.
If you think that 2+2=4 and your neighbor says 2+2=5, is it in the spirit of compromise to agree that 2+2=4.5? No, that's just caving in to stupidity.
Ultimately, being an atheist, I will bemoan the influence of religious superstition, which this partly is. It is also largely due to the cheap thrills to be had by interfering with such a significant project and getting your 15 minutes of fame. So some people wanted to be able to stop and genuflect? On one level that would have been harmless enough but we are talking about a tiny minority of people who have sought every opportunity be contradictory. Didn't some of these people want to speak in court for ancient Hawaiian deities? That kind of nonsense is NOT harmless. You have to have some standards and enforce them. Society exists in order to make people, some of them at least, unhappy. Obviously rapists and murderers need to be made unhappy and for that I am glad, but it is a continuous spectrum. There will always be those who are left or right of center who feel the sting of not getting things their way.
If you think that 2+2=4 and your neighbor says 2+2=5, is it in the spirit of compromise to agree that 2+2=4.5? No, that's just caving in to stupidity.