in Life's name and for Life's sake

Good job on you! I know I write so much about sci-fi (and so much that is sff) because at one point my father used to disdain the combined genres as useless and incapable of producing anything literary. I've grudgingly worked my way through the years to earn his respect for things other than straight-up fiction. When arguing the worth of something, it helps to have someone specific you're arguing at -- it focuses your intentions, and probably you learn something from it on the way.