Derek Nalls wrote on Wed, Aug 8, 2012 10:02 PM UTC:
"If I told you we were discussing "value" rather than "importance",
would that short-circuit this loop and get us back on topic?"
First of all, that's a loaded question, but the answer is NO.
Whichever term you prefer, value or importance, is fine with me.
If I told you that appr. 50,000 years ago, the only homo sapiens
on Earth were a small number in East Africa (probably, black)
and that some of the things they did which by objective, modern
standards seem relatively unimportant were actually important
toward determining the present state of the entire human race,
would you fail completely to follow my reasoning?
The first event in a cause-effect chain is always supremely important.
Do you know what the butterfly effect is?
