Its not like they are changing the ending to Gone with the Wind.

Which is just a movie.

But isn’t everything disposable? I think the “importance” or “nonimportance” of an emotion really depends upon what you’re looking for. In the end all emotions - heck, all thoughts - are just chemicals and neurotransmitters and electicity zinging around in the brain, and we make what we will out of that. For one person an experience can be profoundly transformative, while for another it might be just a temporary good feeling. The processes going on inside their heads might be exactly the same, but each individual interprets it in different way - and each of them is right.

No, see, if you want to go with the "everything counts" argument, then nobody's right. If there's no wrong, nobody's right. And therefore, if everything counts, then nothing is important or meaningful. For something to be "genuine" or "true", there has to be a converse to it. Feelings that are false, basically.

And no, I don't believe that everything is disposable. I think there's a significant difference between an emotion generated in response to interaction with another person and an emotion generated in response to an interaction with an object. The main difference being that, when you interact with a person, there are two perceptions present, and the occurence of them being in synch and responding to one another is visceral and unique. But when you interact with an object, it's just you. Regardless of what you are interacting with, it's all interpreted and defined by you.

And I happen to think that the interaction of two or more people is more meaningful than one person reacting to an object.

Great Stuff man.