Dig Your Grave for Me, Would You?

Hadison:  Very well, Socrato - I'll step in your sophisticated trap and agree to the fact that all human action is an expression of belief.

Socrato:  Why pretend do agree if you do not actually agree, friend?

Hadison:  I know your verbal arrows and poisons well and can see that you will get me to agree anyhow.

Socrato:  And how will I do that?

Hadison:  Ha!  So you'll make me do the work for you, despite the fact that I was willing to give this piece?  Very well.  You'd say something like: is not the eating of breakfast in the morning an expression of the will to live?

Socrato:  Any meal, in fact, is such.

Hadison:  And is not the act of exchanging one's labor for money an expression of the belief that it must be done?

Socrato:  Yes.  Even if the laborer is unconscious of their belief, by freely accepting the currency, they are endorsing the system of payment for labor.

Hadison:  And is it not true that engaging in the hobby of wood carving is an expression of the belief that it is a valuable use of time?

Socrato:  Perhaps.  It could be an expression of the belief that the practice of such a hobby may be a good way to cement friendships.

Hadison:  Of course.  All my best friends come from wood shop class.

Socrato:  Very well.  So we agree that action is an expression of belief.

Hadison:  Yes.  So what's that got to do with your over arching value, that people exist to share philosophical ideas?

Socrato:  What are philosophical ideas?

Hadison:  Theories of what, why and how.

Socrato:  And what are beliefs?

Hadison:  Mostly the same thing I just said, I suppose - theories about the world and how it works.

Socrato:  Indeed.