| Warnings!! |
Aug 1, 2008 6:26 pm
716 Views | Well hello to all you midnight gropers.
Fancy seeing you all here.?
Well I had an intellectual conversation tonight. Yes you might find this hard
to believe, but it is true... There are some people here YOUNGER than me.
Who’s brain is not pickled by alcohol, and they can still have a reasonable
conversation.
The scenario... a husband and wife. Gorden, whose name I haven’t changed
to protect him. and his wife, Lisa, (sexual equality I don’t protect anyone)
She smokes he doesn’t. He drinks a lot, she a little, and they both eat...
Both drive cars and live a “normal” life. What is normal.?? ha ha.
We talked about many things..
At one point in the conversation... he says... If you go to a restaurant, and on
the menu if it says, if you eat this steak, it could damage your health..
Would you eat it???
Or if you order a beer, and on the label it stated... If you drink this beer, it could
damage your health, because it might make you aggressive and want to fight or
be argumentative with anyone who is near you! Would you drink it??
So why do they put on a packet of cigarettes. Smoking can kill? If you smoke this,
it could kill you??
The conversation expanded to all sorts of things... Why isn’t there a label on
a car to say, by driving this vehicle, you could maim or kill someone if you
make an error of judgement. Or do you realise how many animals you are killing
with your exhaust fumes. Or humans!
On a microwave oven.. If you don’t buy this microwave, made in a third world
country, you will be condemning a whole family to poverty or even death.
If you go for a walk in the country, do you realise how many insects you have
trodden on and killed.
Yes as you may have realised, alcohol was a major influence in this conversation.
But the ultimate comment, or reflection on labels of health warnings etc was...
Why don’t WE, carry a person health warning....
If you continue to live and breath and take in Oxygen, are you not depriving others of life???
So, if you have missed the plot, what I am asking here is....
Erm something so profound I don’t know. lol.
Where are the boundaries of warnings, and information, of what we should, could, or can
do. Without affecting others lives???
Help,
Tone. | |
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