Boo boo
New
The trouble is, if you start explaining people's ideas as "ways of coping with reality", where does it stop.
Is the teenage boy who is interested in science, finding ways of coping with the reality that he doesn't have a girlfriend?
Are all medical researchers merely finding ways to cope with the eventual reality of their deaths.
Did Ramanujan develop his mathematics to cope with the reality of his being poor - maybe to count his money better!
Labelling someone's ideas "ways of coping with reality" - while implicity holding your own ideas above such muddiness - is a pretty pathetic way to argue anything.
David
Yeah. It does sound unfair to throw it all around like confetti.