Are Laws and Suffocating Safety Measures Making Society More Dimwitted?

[AuH20]

Somebody sent me this in light of the recent Corn Maze fiasco in Massachusetts. Needless to say I got a hearty chuckle out of it:

The following letter to the editor by Lawrence A. Bullis, origionally published in the Arizona Republic, appeared in issure number 49 of View from the Ledge, a magazine published by Chuck Shephard in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bullis lives in Phoenix.

Safety

Every day some new do-gooder is trying to save us from ourselves. We have so many laws and safety commissions to ensure our safety that it seems nearly impossible to have an accident. The problem is that we need accidents, and lots of them.

Danger is nature’s way of eliminating stupid people. Without safety, stupid people die in accidents. Since the dead don’t reproduce, our species becomes progressively more intelligent (or at least less stupid).

With safety, however well-intentioned it may be, we are devolving into half-witted mutants, because idiots, who by all rights should be dead, are spared from their rightful early graves and are free to breed even more imbeciles.

Let’s do away with safety and improve our species. Take up smoking. Jaywalk. Play with blasting caps. Swim right after a big meal. Stick something small in your ear. Take your choice of dangerous activity and do it with gusto. Future generations will thank you.

Harper’s Magazine / November 1994

[Pericles]

Yes - it is part of that culture in which accountability can be avoided by shifting responsibility elsewhere.

[Anti Federalist]

Corn Maze Fiasco?

What did I miss?

[AuH20]

Corn Maze Fiasco?

What did I miss?

What do Massholes do when they get lost in a wicked scary corn maize? They call 911. :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oblQonO0Qw

[CCTelander]

Corn Maze Fiasco?

What did I miss?


Here's the thread I started about the Corn Maze thing:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?322429-The-Problem-In-A-Nutshell

[donnay]

Corn Maze Fiasco?

What did I miss?

Children of the Corn? :D



But since we are talking about corn and people in Massachusetts how about this for a laugh...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A fall outing to a Massachusetts farm this week turned frightful for a family who got lost in an elaborate corn maze and called 911 to be rescued.

The call for help came on Monday evening from the family lost in the dark in a seven-acre corn maze at a farm in Danvers, about 25 miles north ofBoston, police said on Wednesday.

"I don't see anybody. I'm really scared. It's really dark and we've got a three-week-old baby with us," a woman can be heard saying in a recorded call to 911.

The husband, wife and their two children were actually only about 25 or 30 feet into the maze, but they panicked as darkness fell, worried the farm had closed, police said.

"We thought this would be fun. Instead it's a nightmare," the woman said in the call. The name of the family was not released.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/sns-rt-us-corn-maze-losttre79b6i3-20111012,0,2508737.story

[Anti Federalist]

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww195/anime-junkie/Reaction%20Images/palm_through_face.png


What do Massholes do when they get caught in a wicked scary corn maize? They call 911. :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oblQonO0Qw

[Pericles]

Firing Squad - oops wrong thread.....

[donnay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXapf6XaPk&feature=related

[jtstellar]

i think it's actually a vicious cycle.. with the exception of most of the rp'ers and libertarian youth who are hard working because it's almost inherent with a libertarian style thinking, many other youths are downright lazy and politically apathetic. many of them refuse to work and live off their parents without any future prospect whatsoever. the result of children staying dependent many years well into adulthood fosters this type of relationship of parents being 'nannies'.. and when this is an widespread phenomenon, you can expect parents (old people vote more and young dependent people don't, another ring in this cycle) to propose and vote for legislations that are the byproducts of this type of relationship

to put it bluntly, many youths today are useless and dependent, and they brought this onto themselves by their failure to stand on their own two feet. of course, the system was biased in favor of the boomers and post boomers and they now jack the assets and are not willing to let price collapse. but well, this is a world of natural selection. even between parents and children. parents are willing to let children stay dependent as long as it fits into a general theme that constitutes the parents' mental comfort zone i.e. put them in a place of respect and they still own everything. condition is harsh, but rule remains the same--stand on your own two feet, or perish. even if it takes treating your parents as obstacles or the enemy, sometimes it's just what it takes to overcome and build your own world, and what is necessary just is.


http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww195/anime-junkie/Reaction%20Images/palm_through_face.png lol wtf

[Rael]

Not nearly as much as the welfare system, which encourages the riffraff to breed.

[Danke]

http://www.timetravelreviews.com/images/movieposters/idiocracy_small.jpg

[Revolution9]

What do Massholes do when they get lost in a wicked scary corn maize? They call 911. :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oblQonO0Qw

We have the only canoe route in the Chattahoochee National Forest on the Toccoa River. It lets out just down the hill at Sandy Bottom. Some guy over the summer from NYC tips his kayak and the kayak and paddle float away downstream. He stands on the bank of the river yelling "I am from New York City..Help me!" over and over. He is 250 yards from the official takeout and 25 yards from the road. Needless to say..nobody helped him and it became the laughing stock of the neighborhood. He thought it was an emergency and the locals thought it was entertainment.

Rev9

[MJU1983]

Thread related...spotted this is Sydney Australia, had to take a pic:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/MJU1983/Australia/Australia008.jpg

[Kludge]

So... how'd the Safety Nannies get here in the first place after millennia of minimal safety laws? Are they the Original Mutants?