I agree, for once with Mach. But I take a different vantage on my description: both are artifacts created by an older, less informed, less connected, less civilized society. Both will fade away quietly into the night as the decades and centuries pass.

(06-30-2015 11:51 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I agree, for once with Mach. But I take a different vantage on my description: both are artifacts created by an older, less informed, less connected, less civilized society. Both will fade away quietly into the night as the decades and centuries pass.

hence, different vantage.....doesn't address the two in current comparative value as stated in the op...

and to add to the invalidity of your tangent relative to scope, unions were (at one time) necessary to improve working conditions....I can't come up with a viable argument that religion was ever necessary in relative terms....religion controls the herd, not the other way around

regardless, I won't argue your conclusion....mine is the same....I just don't see it as relevant to the topic as phrased