Subject: addendum to my previous comments
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003
From: Chicschiss@aol.com
To: pantheists.org

Dear Flash Light:

I thought this example would be appropriate:

Is it more meaningful to ask if something is useful or if something is true? I offer an example from Medicine. A patient with cancer is given the choice of two treatments. One is chemotherapy, from a reputable hospital; the other is coffee enemas, from a Midwestern naturopathic clinic. Both treatments are useful: the chemo is useful to the patient (it saved my wife’s life) and the coffee enemas are useful to the owners of the clinic, who will make a substantial profit. But the chemotherapy is true, has been proven to be effective. The coffee enemas are not true and the patient will die (as have so many victims of this treatment). Clearly, it is more meaningful to seek truth before evaluating utility.