If you dont believe in science and evolution please leave now, this post is not for you.
Get! Shoo!
What we now know is humans began evolving at the time of the dinosaurs. Millions of years of slight genetic mutations shifting over and over and over again to bring us to where we are now. There are a few things we have to thank for this. This main thing is survival of the fittest. This works alongside evolution by the following method:
2 tribes of proto-humans (ooga booga tribe and booga ooga tribe).
1 tribe starts evolving with longer legs.
1 tribe starts evolving with stronger arms.
*insert Startrek music here where Spock and Kirk fight on Vulcan, and a large group of fighing neanderthals*
stronger arm tribe wins.
The genetic code that would have continued with the long legged tribe is now destroyed, and the strong armed genetic code continues. The concept is that the idea behind longer legs isn't as advantageous as having stronger arms.
Now what ended up happening later on is physical characteristics were beaten by the mental part of the body... or, the brain. Survival of the fittest no longer means physically strong, but mentally too. And this strength is actually becoming a genetic weakness.
With intelligence we gave birth to individual thought, love, hate, anger, remorse, pity.
With these we create laws, morality, and ethics.
And with these we gave birth to Survival of the weak.
Now try to keep in perspective, this is all about genetics, evolution, and the strengthening of the human race. I'm not being mean, this isn't hateful, and there are no racist undertones here.
Child born. Child has downsyndrome. (testing now can detect this in the first trimester, giving the parents the option of aborting or not). What to do with child? Does this child deserve to be love and nurtured? Be a part of a family, a life, a home. Most definitely. But their genetic structure is compromised, and by default, there will typically be a genetic proneness to the mother or the father.
"But Kris, are you saying we should sterilize new borns because of genetics defects?"
Yes I am. Im not going to sugar coat it. I'm not going to pretend this isn't as bad as it sounds either. It's a cold thought, but one that has meaning, and purpose.
Now keep in mind also, i'm not saying to steralize children that have minor issues, most people do. But serious genetic abnormalities should not be allowed to continue.
Why would we want to give onto our children major genetic risks, so that they can continue to pass it on, and so on, and so forth.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you want to look at it) we allow this to continue. Left unchecked it risks becoming so wide spread that it will affect the entire polulace. Most people dont see the risks yet because of the same reason that most people didn't see the risks about the environment at first.
How can you polute the air? It's Air! There's way too much air to be able to polute it all. 50-70-100 years later now look at us. People see the polution in the air, the water, even the earth. This is the same basic thing. If wont make a difference, there's too many people. Then in one hundred years where 1 of every 2 people are both with genetic dispositions people will see how widespread this is capable of becoming. (realistically speaking we're probably talking a thousand years, but i'm not totally sure).
My viewpoint is actually shared with quite a few people, and not even necessarily bad people either. We've even see entire civilizations share a much harsher version of this. The Spartans would sterilize your child... they would take your baby from your womb. The mother would bathe the child in wine. If it didn't die from that the child was inspected. If it was "puny or deformed" they would throw it into the chasm of Mount Taygetos. Hell i'm just saying make it so they dont spread their defective genetics.
Personally, I feel if something simular to this isn't created soon, the long term consequences of the human race will be disasterous.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Idiots are not heros!
Todays blog revolves around this JetBlue flight attendant who in "the peoples hero" by freaking out on some people, pulling an emergency slide with 2 beers in hand, and fluttering away like a giant douche-canoe.
Here's a recent story about it:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/846995--the-anti-slater-how-one-flight-attendant-handled-an-on-board-free-for-all?bn=1
Ok so the jist is as he accounts:
2 passengers were fighting. Slater steps in, gets hit in the head with a piece of luggage and absolutely looses it. Grabs 2 beers, pulls the emergency slide, slides down to the tarmac, drives home. At this point he's arrested for multiple charges.
What makes him even more of a douchebag is that reports are coming out that show that he might have been lying. That he was in fact the one that started the fight.
That aside, assuming he was telling the truth, he's not a hero, and doesn't deserve anyone's pity or cheer.
Imagine if you may; You call TELUS because your long distance has been suspended and you're told it's because you didn't pay your bill. A system error caused us to not send a bill for a few months so you weren't getting it. As a customer this is still your fault. You didn't receive a bill, didn't call us to let us know you weren't getting them, and didn't answer when we called to let you know your bill wasn't paid (you seriosuly dont have a voicemail?).
You call in pissed because you think it's not fair, you were going to call your mother today because she's not feeling well and now you can't. You get angry at the agent on the other end of the phone.
1) You're in customer service. You know you are... you know you're going to get yelled at from time to time. It happens. Don't act like "this isn't what i signed up for" because yes, it is.
2) Your job is to help this customer. Let him rant and then do your job. Take a payment and get his service back up. Come on, yes this is partially our fault, but the customer did have a responsibility here as well. He still has a right to be mad... he misses his mom.
3) Stressful call? Take a breather, short walk, talk to your manager, then take the next call.
But no, the TELUS rep calls you an idiot for not calling us when you didn't get your bill, a fuck tart for thinking it's our fault, and ends the call by telling you to go die in a fire! After hanging up on you, the rep goes into the systems and cancels phone/internet/tv JUST to spite you. (to my knowledge this has never happened, just a made up scenario)
This is something that reps with ALL telecommunication companies would just LOVE to do with some people that call in. Do we? NO! Because this is horrible! Doing something like this wouldn't make you awesome, or a hero, it would make you the biggest dick to grace the company you're with.
Now lets return this back to this idiot. After all that's happened with airplane security, 9-11, homeland security, etc. he still has the odacity to pull something like this. Was it worth it? Was getting hit in the head by a piece of luggage worth going to jail?
The sad thing is this guy is going to have massive amounts of support by people who think what he did was commendable. If you can't handle the job you're doing, quit. This is just pathetic.
Also, if the new information coming out about him being the one who started the fight turns out to be true... Fired, fined, jail time should be mandatory... and if anyone on that plane wants to sue him to undue stress (after all, they were on a plane, omg is it a terrorist? I haven't been able to sleep since then)... i wouldn't blame you.
What do you guys think?
Here's a recent story about it:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/846995--the-anti-slater-how-one-flight-attendant-handled-an-on-board-free-for-all?bn=1
Ok so the jist is as he accounts:
2 passengers were fighting. Slater steps in, gets hit in the head with a piece of luggage and absolutely looses it. Grabs 2 beers, pulls the emergency slide, slides down to the tarmac, drives home. At this point he's arrested for multiple charges.
What makes him even more of a douchebag is that reports are coming out that show that he might have been lying. That he was in fact the one that started the fight.
That aside, assuming he was telling the truth, he's not a hero, and doesn't deserve anyone's pity or cheer.
Imagine if you may; You call TELUS because your long distance has been suspended and you're told it's because you didn't pay your bill. A system error caused us to not send a bill for a few months so you weren't getting it. As a customer this is still your fault. You didn't receive a bill, didn't call us to let us know you weren't getting them, and didn't answer when we called to let you know your bill wasn't paid (you seriosuly dont have a voicemail?).
You call in pissed because you think it's not fair, you were going to call your mother today because she's not feeling well and now you can't. You get angry at the agent on the other end of the phone.
1) You're in customer service. You know you are... you know you're going to get yelled at from time to time. It happens. Don't act like "this isn't what i signed up for" because yes, it is.
2) Your job is to help this customer. Let him rant and then do your job. Take a payment and get his service back up. Come on, yes this is partially our fault, but the customer did have a responsibility here as well. He still has a right to be mad... he misses his mom.
3) Stressful call? Take a breather, short walk, talk to your manager, then take the next call.
But no, the TELUS rep calls you an idiot for not calling us when you didn't get your bill, a fuck tart for thinking it's our fault, and ends the call by telling you to go die in a fire! After hanging up on you, the rep goes into the systems and cancels phone/internet/tv JUST to spite you. (to my knowledge this has never happened, just a made up scenario)
This is something that reps with ALL telecommunication companies would just LOVE to do with some people that call in. Do we? NO! Because this is horrible! Doing something like this wouldn't make you awesome, or a hero, it would make you the biggest dick to grace the company you're with.
Now lets return this back to this idiot. After all that's happened with airplane security, 9-11, homeland security, etc. he still has the odacity to pull something like this. Was it worth it? Was getting hit in the head by a piece of luggage worth going to jail?
The sad thing is this guy is going to have massive amounts of support by people who think what he did was commendable. If you can't handle the job you're doing, quit. This is just pathetic.
Also, if the new information coming out about him being the one who started the fight turns out to be true... Fired, fined, jail time should be mandatory... and if anyone on that plane wants to sue him to undue stress (after all, they were on a plane, omg is it a terrorist? I haven't been able to sleep since then)... i wouldn't blame you.
What do you guys think?
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