Picking fights
I do it alot. I know I do.
Alot of the things my girlfriend says shit me. It's not really her fault, she thinks she can't predict how I'll react to anything, that I always surprise her, and get overzealous about things she thinks I'd have no interest in.
It really gets on my nerves, however, when she starts mouthing off about something she knows nothing about. Its not like I don't share her point of view, but she never considers anyone else's point of view, and this is one of the things that makes me so angry at the world.
The other week in a workshop we were made to sit through several videos about stem cell research. There was several sides to the story, there was a philosopher, severak different religious group representative, a few scientists who worked with stem cells and one man who was receiving stem cell therapy for Parkinsons or some other degenerative brain disorder.
Now you can guess prettu much everyones point of view.
When we got out of class one of my friends asked me what if I was for or against it. I told her I wasn't really sure, I'm not for it or against it, it's not that I don't care, it's just that it's not my decision to make. So whose is it?
Well personally I think everyone of the people they interviewed were wrong. They were opposing views to all different degrees, but I still think everyone of them was wrong.
The philosopher's point was that we are taking a life to save a life. Well, I would say he is a religious man, I can't think of a scientist who would say that a few day old fertilised egg, at the blastocyst stage of forming, constitutes a life. Do you think every cell in your body is a life, and has a right to live? Then you should stop smoking, and drinking, and eating many food, and playing with mobile phones, and computers, all these things are damaging or carcinogenic in some way, but everyone does it, yes these cells die naturally, but do you think throat lung cancer is natural?
So this was the point of most of the religious persons interviewed. You're killing a potential human being. So if a woman decides to donate a majority of her eggs, some possibly for later IVF, do you expect her to have hundreds and hundreds of children to use up all of these eggs? If they stayed in her body, when they aren't fertilized, they are lost, I mean, it's called a peroid morons.
Well what about the scientists? Do you think they care about the arguments of the religious groups rallying against their work? One of the women kept getting choked up when she started talking about everyone knowing someone in their life whose has diabetes or parkisons or some other problem that they have died from, that could, possibly, one day, maybe be cured by stem cell research. So how many family members do you think she's lost to some hereditary disease? Does she fear for her own health and life, or is she affected solely by the loss of her loved ones? Do you think she cares about a possible chance at new life in this embryonate egg she is destroying?
And last but not least, the patient. Good on him for trying something new? For being a guinea pig for science? For sticking by a new unproved therapy? Yeh, because the medical world provides so much help elsewhere. He doesn't really have any other options. Do you think he cares about the unborn baby in a petri dish of someone with more money than hormones trying to get pregnant by IVF, when he's suffered for so long?
Which one of these people has it right? Which one of them do you think has any right to decide, even?
To me, they are all wrong, simply because not one of them cares about the others point of view. And these religious men, do you think that if the were found to have developed Parkinsons, or Huntingtons, they would turn down the only chance of a cure, simply because of their religious teachings?
Don't get me started about Organ Donation.
Alot of the things my girlfriend says shit me. It's not really her fault, she thinks she can't predict how I'll react to anything, that I always surprise her, and get overzealous about things she thinks I'd have no interest in.
It really gets on my nerves, however, when she starts mouthing off about something she knows nothing about. Its not like I don't share her point of view, but she never considers anyone else's point of view, and this is one of the things that makes me so angry at the world.
The other week in a workshop we were made to sit through several videos about stem cell research. There was several sides to the story, there was a philosopher, severak different religious group representative, a few scientists who worked with stem cells and one man who was receiving stem cell therapy for Parkinsons or some other degenerative brain disorder.
Now you can guess prettu much everyones point of view.
When we got out of class one of my friends asked me what if I was for or against it. I told her I wasn't really sure, I'm not for it or against it, it's not that I don't care, it's just that it's not my decision to make. So whose is it?
Well personally I think everyone of the people they interviewed were wrong. They were opposing views to all different degrees, but I still think everyone of them was wrong.
The philosopher's point was that we are taking a life to save a life. Well, I would say he is a religious man, I can't think of a scientist who would say that a few day old fertilised egg, at the blastocyst stage of forming, constitutes a life. Do you think every cell in your body is a life, and has a right to live? Then you should stop smoking, and drinking, and eating many food, and playing with mobile phones, and computers, all these things are damaging or carcinogenic in some way, but everyone does it, yes these cells die naturally, but do you think throat lung cancer is natural?
So this was the point of most of the religious persons interviewed. You're killing a potential human being. So if a woman decides to donate a majority of her eggs, some possibly for later IVF, do you expect her to have hundreds and hundreds of children to use up all of these eggs? If they stayed in her body, when they aren't fertilized, they are lost, I mean, it's called a peroid morons.
Well what about the scientists? Do you think they care about the arguments of the religious groups rallying against their work? One of the women kept getting choked up when she started talking about everyone knowing someone in their life whose has diabetes or parkisons or some other problem that they have died from, that could, possibly, one day, maybe be cured by stem cell research. So how many family members do you think she's lost to some hereditary disease? Does she fear for her own health and life, or is she affected solely by the loss of her loved ones? Do you think she cares about a possible chance at new life in this embryonate egg she is destroying?
And last but not least, the patient. Good on him for trying something new? For being a guinea pig for science? For sticking by a new unproved therapy? Yeh, because the medical world provides so much help elsewhere. He doesn't really have any other options. Do you think he cares about the unborn baby in a petri dish of someone with more money than hormones trying to get pregnant by IVF, when he's suffered for so long?
Which one of these people has it right? Which one of them do you think has any right to decide, even?
To me, they are all wrong, simply because not one of them cares about the others point of view. And these religious men, do you think that if the were found to have developed Parkinsons, or Huntingtons, they would turn down the only chance of a cure, simply because of their religious teachings?
Don't get me started about Organ Donation.