K
Kentucky Kache
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Libralabsoldier said:Ok, KK, here we go:
It's not so much science, but the abuses and irresponsibility of science that is bad. We're all spoiled to the conveniences science had given us, but at the same time our planet is being destroyed, and lives are being lost daily. And we say, oh well, it's just the price we pay for progress. We once breathed clean air, and could drink water from streams(Except for Giardia, which is still a problem, and the other water borne illnesses such as amobeiasis, and typhoid)...not any more. We once didn't worry about our teenagers being killed in car wrecks, but now we do.(Cars are safer now than they ever were, but teens also are texting more, so we will call that a draw) We once didn't have deformities and death from eating hybrid food, but now we do. (Care to post a source. Many deformities are from over use of soy products, which contain phytoestrogens, and chemical pesticides)Yes sir, we have progressed. I know the argument about medicine, but even that has been abused to the point we can't survive without it.(We are living far longer now, or do you perhaps think we should all die in our forties as was common a scant fifty to seventy five years ago? More and more of my military brothers and sisters are surviving war thanks to medical improvements) Our bodies are so weakened from the food we eat, and by chemicals, that we need these things to hold us up. (NoIf we'd had the good sense to use medicine wisely, and not let things get out of control, and not do all these other things, we'd be doing good. But that's not our nature. We had to keep "progressing" until we got the world in the mess it's in, where not only these things are happening, but we've lost even the ability to recognize what's really going on.
(Most people fear change. We are saving more and more lives every year. There is a balance that must be paid. Environmental damage comes from greedy businesses, not your everyday person. Greedy developers suck every drop of water from ancient aquifers....we have the scientific ability to create newer, cleaner engines, but people want cheap easy fossil fuels. People want to live close to the shore, without regard to the fact that nature can never be fully tamed, no matter how good science is. )
We are living longer than ever before. Except for those who are KILLED in car wrecks, plane crashes and diseases which are gifts from our "civilized" world. And isn't texting given to us by science? Anyone who has ever experienced loosing a loved one would trade all this to have their family. I've already said we would have done well if we'd have been wise with medicine.
Cars are safer that ever before. That's like saying drinking poison is safer than before because its been diluted. IT STILL KILLS. When you can completely stop deaths and bring back those who have been taken, then you'll have something. It's not that I'm against cars. In today's world we have to use them. But let's at least be honest about the facts.
And before you give the argument about guns, let me say again, I'm not against the things we have invented...just saying that we would be healthier and happier if we'd never had them.