In reply to captain paranoia:
> I don't see the point. I don't need a weekly lecture on morals.
Why should it be a lecture? Why can it not be a discussion of how we should behave.. ..there are enough pressures that propose the question as legitimate: the limits of spending of the state, justification in priorities in spending, profligacy of a societal elite, limitation of world resources, climate change, etc etc
> If I want to attend a social gathering, I go to the pub; a much more pleasant way of spending a Sunday evening...
Well it is pleasant, but I don't see why you can't do both, and why the process of going to somewhere that isn't convenient or comfortable isn't in itself precisely a reason to do it... ...i.e. to meet people you might otherwise have very little in common, and which except in a limited regard, you don't select, that, if it grows, is likely to transcend social boundaries.