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Recently I came across a quote in an old volume of Jung that I was
skimming through. The quote is from Johann Mylius, writing in 1622:
It is more difficult to make a man live again, than to slay him.
The quote came to mind again today as I was visiting my cardiologist,
Dr. Goldberg. As of this date I am now officially 3 years beyond the
average life expectancy for congestive heart failure, at the far right
end of the bell curve. And there is no doubt in my mind that the reason
for that is the expert care of my doctors.
Doctors may spend years, even decades, trying to extend life when faced
with some malady. Sometimes they fail. But often they succeed, to one
degree or another. And even when they fail it is after great effort has
been made towards the patient's care.
They are on the side of Life. Which is seldom an easy undertaking.
Unfortunately not all humans are like that. For motives of ego, simply
because they only care about their own desires and needs, they commit
terrible acts. And it only takes a few seconds to put a gun to someone's
head and pull the trigger.
Perhaps the reason there is such evil in the world is simply because it
is so damn easy.
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Pull the trigger. Or press the button. Or just order….It is so easy. I couldn`t agree more :up:
E. Adams :up:
Two or three people through my time have said to me, that I've saved their life, but I only know of one evident case in which I know I have saved somebody's life. I smashed in the door of a burning car and dragged the unconcious driver and her ditto passenger out of the wreck literaly seconds before the gasoline caught fire with a blast. I have worked in the streets as a volunteer social worker, and helped people out of trouble and into medical treatment or simply a better life. It is true, that helping people can be hard, but it is necessary. Taking lifes isn't. Nature will do that eventually. No reason to waste time and energy on such a irrational thing as killing somebody, however simple the act might be.We are here to help eachother. That is the reason why there are more than one human being around.
:up: Absolutely.You know I added the bottom photo I think seconds after your Comment was posted. But it is a perfect complement to your Comment, I think.Which reminds me, I need to get the photo credit put in there. :doh:
Well I would say that it "sounds like quite the adventure", but of course in such dire straits it was not an adventure.
Thank you. For the record, I didn't get hurt during the aforementioned rescue mission. It was by the way purely coincidental. I was driving home on bicycle from secondary school (some twenty years ago) and suddenly the car up the road left the road and smashed sideways into a three. Just like that. I had to help, because I saw flames coming from one end of the car. The pepople in the car were both unconcious, the door was stuck, and the smell of leaking gasoline almost made me give up. However, eventually the door gave up and I dragged them out and away just in time, before the damn thÃng blew up. Much to my surprise the fire sort of died just after the blast, which is normal I was told afterwards. Both ladies were okay, nothing broken or anything, just shaken.Just for the record.As to ethics, it's not something I think much about. I just live it.
I admire your act with the burning car, Martin. And I hope that you yourself weren't injured in the process. And I more or less agree with the other. You know Ludwig Wittgenstein showed very convincingly I think that ethics cannot be derived from the rational. Others may disagree. And I have to admit that I am a little uncomfortable these days with dualistic ontologies. But ethics certainly are a choice. And, who knows, as you say perhaps some rationality can be brought to bear on it. Ignorance is easier than the acquisition of knowledge. It's hard to convince the evil bastards of anything except what they want to believe. Thank you very much for you supplement. There is certainly more than one human being here at Opera. :yes:
Paramedics, then doctors, brought me back to life three times in one night back in the spring of 2001.There really are heroes.:smile:
I love the way you are thinking Eddie :love: :heart: and I am lucky you escaped the statistics, or the predictions of the doctors….you made these past thee years very special to me and many other friends on Opera ! :love:
@ Star. Three times? Wow, that's really incredible!@ Angeliki. Thanks! And glad to be here! :up:
I also got a few chances, thanks to the men and women of medicine. Because of this, I also consider myself as living on 'extra time'.
And here's to another three years Ed….:wine: :beer:
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
Ok, I haven't had a Bloody Mary in quite a while. :p
I had to cut back. :cry::lol:
@ Martin. I hear we get paid time and a half for extra time. :p (I wish.)@ Pam. Thanks, Pam! :wine: (just pretend that's a tomato juice :lol:)
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
sure. conscience itself (atrophied in modern man) is a function not of logical mind but of the heart. 💡
Hey Scott. Good to see you here. Yeah, the old "greatest good for the greatest number" base only goes so far. Nevertheless I still hold to Rationality in things other than ethics or religion.