Ah Marty...I have learned more about you in this recent run....and can see your POV much better...

Thank you ...I better understand why you would consider our discussions as meddling......even as touching nerves like that was not an intent....

We do share the same frustrations when there is yet another mass shooting....and Canada is not immune and does not feel somehow "holier than thou"

BTW Lucretius wrote a poem describing the universe in physical terms, urging people to be unafraid of the natural world and impending death....all part of the cycle of life.
I am a Humanist by "inclination and interest" , an optimistic agnostic by "temperment", and believe one should make a positive impact on their family, community and as big as you can elsewhere...leaving a better world when you leave it. Like you, I am grateful for our gift of sentience, awareness....we live in an amazing universe that is full of questions that beg for answers....and we follow where they lead

Off course we can also be no choice among stinking fish as they say....we are complicated.

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop