(np) New Pope?

[Michael Bailey]

 Iris Sirius  wrote:
> Mike, what could it posssiblymatter whether any given Pope lives dies or
> burns on? Who gives a fat fuck?
>

a) i care (categorical imperative, maybe)

b) is there something more important than the alleviation or avoidance
of suffering, of causing same, and the application of pleasantness, to
care about?  given (categorically imperatively) (and empirically)
("experience, though noon auctority -- something something, allas,
allas that evere love was sinne!" - Wyf of Bath) that it's in the
nature of one to care about things -- is it more important to care
about the abstract principle of not caring about a particular entity's
feeling because of disagreements of one sort or another than about ?
that is the specious line of reasoning the Church used, burning Bruno,
et al