This is something I wrote this morning. It is unpolished, unedited, and unfiltered. It *IS* controversial, and most of you will disagree with me. This is precisely why I'm posting it. I want to hear your thoughts.
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Don't you think it's high time we stopped trying to live longer and tried taking a look at the effects we're having on the planet? Yes, survival is a strong drive for most people, but I'm curious to know when the human population as a whole will realize that the reason we keep having more and more diseases that are "incurable" is because Mother Nature is trying to even the score a little bit. We've already defied her greatly, simply by increasing our populations well past 6 BILLION. Our life expectancies were shorter back when we didn't have ridiculous amounts of medicine and treatment for everything. Quality of life seemed better by comparison, if you consider how much people gripe about the little things these days. Back in the 1600's, people WORKED for what they had. They EARNED respect, they built their own houses, they raised their own kids. Obviously, that got us to where we are today, but have we really improved on the situation? Yes, we're living longer, but for what? Not everybody lives to be 100. After 75 or so, things just aren't as exciting anymore. Yes, I asked a few people that were well into their 80's about this very topic. By the time you hit 90, many of your friends are gone, and most of your family probably doesn't even want to hang out with you. Your body is failing in ways you never thought of before, and quality of life just isn't what it used to be.
Mental illness is an extension of Mother Nature's revenge. Seemingly sane people still commit heinous atrocities against other members of the human race, but I content that Mother Nature is simply using all means necessary to help cull the herd. Clearly, if you couldn't defend yourself against a raging maniac hell-bent on eating your left arm, you weren't the "fittest," and thus, needed to free up resources for someone who is. Same thing with disease - again, nature's way of culling the herd. Obviously, whatever killed you was more fit than you were.
Medical care (despite that I work in the medical industry) is simply delaying the inevitable. Why must we humans multiply until there's no more space on the Earth for us to occupy? When is it enough? Will we simply create more land in the ocean and start taking over that, too?
To put things in perspective, there are still countries out there without running water. THOSE people know how to survive, as they have limited resources, and are still somehow eking out an existence.
There are countries that are living well beyond their borders, both literally and figuratively. Those countries that get much of their sustenance from outside sources (when they pay for the imports, not the donated kind that are dropped on them and stolen) are again prolonging the inevitable.
I am not the most eloquent person on the net; far from it, in fact. Powen could probably reword this entire thing and make it sound all flowery (no, that's not an insult, Powen). I'm more of a "BAM! Here's your problem" kind of guy - others would sugar-coat it, and that's not what I'm about.
Yeah, I know this is controversial. Everything that might take away the lives of people is controversial. I'm not condoning murder; I don't like prison anymore than you do. Don't go out and kill people just because I said it's natural. Chances are good you'll die just like the others did back before there were laws that put you in jail instead of letting the public take care of you the old-fashioned way. If you do something stupid, that's on you.
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Don't you think it's high time we stopped trying to live longer and tried taking a look at the effects we're having on the planet? Yes, survival is a strong drive for most people, but I'm curious to know when the human population as a whole will realize that the reason we keep having more and more diseases that are "incurable" is because Mother Nature is trying to even the score a little bit. We've already defied her greatly, simply by increasing our populations well past 6 BILLION. Our life expectancies were shorter back when we didn't have ridiculous amounts of medicine and treatment for everything. Quality of life seemed better by comparison, if you consider how much people gripe about the little things these days. Back in the 1600's, people WORKED for what they had. They EARNED respect, they built their own houses, they raised their own kids. Obviously, that got us to where we are today, but have we really improved on the situation? Yes, we're living longer, but for what? Not everybody lives to be 100. After 75 or so, things just aren't as exciting anymore. Yes, I asked a few people that were well into their 80's about this very topic. By the time you hit 90, many of your friends are gone, and most of your family probably doesn't even want to hang out with you. Your body is failing in ways you never thought of before, and quality of life just isn't what it used to be.
Mental illness is an extension of Mother Nature's revenge. Seemingly sane people still commit heinous atrocities against other members of the human race, but I content that Mother Nature is simply using all means necessary to help cull the herd. Clearly, if you couldn't defend yourself against a raging maniac hell-bent on eating your left arm, you weren't the "fittest," and thus, needed to free up resources for someone who is. Same thing with disease - again, nature's way of culling the herd. Obviously, whatever killed you was more fit than you were.
Medical care (despite that I work in the medical industry) is simply delaying the inevitable. Why must we humans multiply until there's no more space on the Earth for us to occupy? When is it enough? Will we simply create more land in the ocean and start taking over that, too?
To put things in perspective, there are still countries out there without running water. THOSE people know how to survive, as they have limited resources, and are still somehow eking out an existence.
There are countries that are living well beyond their borders, both literally and figuratively. Those countries that get much of their sustenance from outside sources (when they pay for the imports, not the donated kind that are dropped on them and stolen) are again prolonging the inevitable.
I am not the most eloquent person on the net; far from it, in fact. Powen could probably reword this entire thing and make it sound all flowery (no, that's not an insult, Powen). I'm more of a "BAM! Here's your problem" kind of guy - others would sugar-coat it, and that's not what I'm about.
Yeah, I know this is controversial. Everything that might take away the lives of people is controversial. I'm not condoning murder; I don't like prison anymore than you do. Don't go out and kill people just because I said it's natural. Chances are good you'll die just like the others did back before there were laws that put you in jail instead of letting the public take care of you the old-fashioned way. If you do something stupid, that's on you.
