Know what this country needs? It needs a good crap-o-meter.

A vintage outhouse (from http://www.squidoo.com/a-silly-halloween-outhouse-party)

There used be a time when the ultimate answer to a bad course of action was "but people will die!"

You heard that on TV, in movies, books, everything.

It was the one response that could change the course of disastrous events.

We've become so inured by actuary tables, traffic accidents, cancer, euthanasia, (and abortion, IMHO), that death is no longer the worst possible thing that can happen.

What is?

The increased inconvenience to the living.

It's a progressive descent into apathy but with the same selfish choice at each step...

In this picture, a man is running down steps over successive decisions that lead to his own personal comfort at the expense of others. The steps read: • Why do I have to pay more for a can of corn because the other guy decided to steal from you? • Why should I walk two feet to put my shopping cart in the cart corral? Don't you pay someone to do that? • So you're asking more money for this house because you can? • Why do my premiums go up just because my coworker has cancer? • Gee, it's costs a lot of money to keep that guy on life support. • Gee, it costs a lot of money to keep a convicted killer in prison for the rest of his life. • Gee, if those babies actually get born, I'll have to pay for them.

Since when did we get the collective right to decide who gets born and who dies?

Is there a rule or precedent?

Something besides mutual consent?

The majority of people believe a majority of crap.

If there is no crap-o-meter, how do you tell which ideas are crappier than the others?

You can't.

c0

KRAP-oh-meet-er ? krap-AHM-met-er ?

c0

[2013-04-2]