# What makes sense in the world? What doesn't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 26, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302 "2009-07-26T05:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/1 "2009-07-26T05:40:57Z")
I’ve been going over things from A to Z and I’ve come to a simple, sensible, but unsettling conclusion: school and work. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/2 "2009-07-26T05:45:28Z")
Within school, I would argue, it’s the ABC’s: Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, instead of the 3Rs of Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/3 "2009-07-26T05:50:55Z")
Family is the most important by far. Your own children should trump everything else in the world combined. Secondarily but related should be your own health and well-being. All you have to ask yourself is what you would care about the day after a nuclear holocaust? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/4 "2009-07-26T06:04:03Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > All you have to ask yourself is what you would care about the day after a nuclear holocaust? That would fall under the category of something that doesn’t make sense. I guess what I’ve been pondering is the ‘congruence’ between school and work. You learn the fundamental in school and you deal with the complex in work. On that point, I’ll be the first to admit that work seems so much more scary and daunting than school. Can school prepare you for anything? Certainly for work. Outside of the boundaries of work? Can school prepare you for life? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/5 "2009-07-26T06:30:52Z")
If you are talking about American liberal arts universities, they aren’t supposed to be a trade school. They educate you as an individual and you can use that however you see fit. I always thought the professional work world was much easier than a completing good liberal arts education but they hold a paycheck over your head and you have other life obligations at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mojo\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_Pin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/6 "2009-07-26T07:45:13Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Family is the most important by far. Your own children should trump everything else in the world combined. Secondarily but related should be your own health and well-being. > > All you have to ask yourself is what you would care about the day after a nuclear holocaust? Why’s big strong daddy so eager to flex his hormonal parent muscle? His question was “what makes sense in the world”, not what do you think is “the most important by far”. Anyway, as far as I can tell, every single thing in the world makes perfect sense. Each consecutive moment is a logical inevitability and an imperative for the next one. The world makes perfect sense, and there’s hardly anything to like about it. edit for _flow_ ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/7 "2009-07-26T18:09:55Z")
High school made sense for me. But then, in college, I encountered linguistics and logic. It was like [Mary’s Room](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary's_room), except I wasn’t encountering color for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-sense-in-the-world-what-doesnt/504302/8 "2009-07-26T18:38:41Z")
The U.S. Mint makes a lot of cents.