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Mittelwaechter 04-28-16 11:13 AM

The system needs stupid people in masses: cheap workers, willing consumers of any crap, deceivable debtors, submissive soldiers, gullible, uncritical followers...

Better try to care for them!

vienna 04-28-16 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2400515)
Yes, but then you don't get the opportunity to do the whole "Ugh, young people these days" thing, Jim.
Come on man, get with the program! :O:

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2400539)
Exactly, you're supposed to be all "Young people these days" and "Back in my day kids had more respect!", not to mention that every doctor, fireman and police officer now looks like a kid just out of school.
It's tradition, Jim!

Damn smartass kids! Always trying to tell us what to do... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/an...y-emoticon.gif

You!! Get off my lawn!! And, no!, you can't have your ball back!...



<O>

Oberon 04-28-16 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by vienna (Post 2400657)
Damn smartass kids! Always trying to tell us what to do... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/an...y-emoticon.gif

You!! Get off my lawn!! And, no!, you can't have your ball back!...



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But Mr Wiiiiiiilsoooooon!

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Peter Cremer 04-28-16 04:52 PM

It will probably be like most other things invented to make life safer. It will work until people get so used to it that they will just not notice it anymore and go back to doing what will probably get them killed. If you want to protect people from themselves, put them in a padded cell and once a day put a leash on them and take them for a walk. :yeah:

u crank 04-28-16 05:13 PM

Mom used to say, "don't run with scissors", she didn't give us rubber scissors.

A species that cannot keep itself from injury or death is a species on the way out.:know:

fireftr18 04-28-16 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2400676)
Mom used to say, "don't run with scissors", she didn't give us rubber scissors.

A species that cannot keep itself from injury or death is a species on the way out.:know:

So then we shouldn't protect stupid people and strengthen the gene pool. :Kaleun_Goofy:

Jimbuna 04-29-16 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by vienna (Post 2400657)
Damn smartass kids! Always trying to tell us what to do... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/an...y-emoticon.gif

You!! Get off my lawn!! And, no!, you can't have your ball back!...



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MaDef 04-29-16 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by fireftr18 (Post 2400708)
So then we shouldn't protect stupid people and strengthen the gene pool. :Kaleun_Goofy:

Pretty much, There seems to be a lot of people out there that are nothing more than a waste of oxygen.

Skybird 04-29-16 07:34 AM

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Platapus 04-29-16 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2400676)
Mom used to say, "don't run with scissors", she didn't give us rubber scissors.

A species that cannot keep itself from injury or death is a species on the way out.:know:

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Originally Posted by fireftr18 (Post 2400708)
So then we shouldn't protect stupid people and strengthen the gene pool. :Kaleun_Goofy:

When I was going for my Intermediate EMT certification, I was assigned to this one paramedic working the inner city squad. He had been on the streets way too long and was burned out. He treated me (and everyone else) like crap, but honestly I learned more about the street from him than anyone else.

But I remember the first time we rode together. He told me that EMS was working contrary to nature. In order for our species to survive, the stupid ones need to die and in EMS most of the time we are saving stupid people.

:o

Hmm not exactly what they taught me in the class room.

But damn, he was a good paramedic. :salute:

Jimbuna 04-29-16 09:05 AM

^
Similarly in the LEO business here in the UK.

When explaining to new colleagues how it was often the stupid people we would remove from the streets the response would occasionally be "But surely it is the criminals we remove?"

His response was always....."Nope, they're stupid, otherwise we wouldn't be catching them."

Dowly 04-29-16 09:34 AM

I applaud the Germans.

While these people might seems idiots (and to some extend, they are), they might still be mothers/fathers/daughters/sons/etc.

If this is what it takes to protect them, so be it.

And as HunterICX pointed out, there is the damage done to the one who runs them over.

I hate this smartphone culture, but it should not be punishable by being run over.

I hope this helps.

August 04-29-16 09:57 AM

Eh it's all temporary. As soon as they come out with a direct connection to the brain you won't be able to tell who is distracted and who isn't. Think of it as a hands free mode for the visual part of a smart phone.

em2nought 04-29-16 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 2400788)

Oh, that would make a good movie. Like the Halloween one where kids sit down in front of the tv in their halloween mask, and it turns their brains to snakes and bugs. "The Zombie App" :up:

u crank 04-29-16 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly (Post 2400827)
I applaud the Germans.

While these people might seems idiots (and to some extend, they are), they might still be mothers/fathers/daughters/sons/etc.

If this is what it takes to protect them, so be it.

I think that the principle behind this thinking is somewhat admirable but there is a catch. The more you protect people from themselves, the more dependent they will become on that protection. Where will this lead?


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