Someone brought up an interesting point during an argument yesterday. They accused me of disrespecting my belongings by leaving them lying around in disarray. I said this was ridiculous, that things don't mean anything, I'm not ethically bound to respect them. My accuser said, if they don't mean anything then why do I have them? Am I being inconsistent?

Like a good annoying philosopher should say, it all depends on definitions. There's nothing in my definition of 'to mean nothing' that indicates one shouldn't have such things, but then again I'm not sure what my definition really is. Perhaps I should have used different wording and just wanted to sound Eastern; all I really meant was, apart from the financial concern if they get damaged and have to be replaced, I see no reason to "respect" my things. Yeah.