Woody Cavenaugh

It is not like you are helping!

Credit where credit is due this entry is inspired by this blog in of all things, an entry in the form of a poem about anti-gay laws. It makes since in my head, so I am running with it.

Laws are for the most part, a set of rules to make sure we don't do anything to hurt our fellow man, and penalities to inspire you to stay good. So what the heck happened? It used to be so simple, don't steal, don't kill, "Do no harm", and now we have to wear seat belts, and helmets.

What are we doing with laws designed to protect stupid people from themselves? We are helping to destroy our very own species by removing ourselves from the natural order. If people were still free to ride motorcycles without helmets and drive cars without seat belts, sure there would be more business at the mortuaries, but whatever gene made the victim feel invulnerable has been removed from the gene pool at least in that subject. Plus, it's good for the mortuary business!

Where's the problem?

"We're going to put you in jail because you tried to kill yourself."

That is the dummest statement I have ever heard next to "Hey ya'll, watch this!". Better answer. "You tried to kill yourself and failed, here's a pamplet. On one side is places to go to help cure depression. On the otherside is instructions on how to be more successful when trying to killing yourself. Don't forget to get a liscense from the courthouse so the county knows to go pick up your body. Any children? No? Good.

Scientist are working around the clock to cure genetic ailments that are only there at all because we work so hard to keep the genetic maladies in the genepool.

And yes, everyone here including myself can talk about ourselves or someone we know and love fighting some genetic problem that just "X" number of years ago would have ment we would not survive. People are important! No, individual people might be important. You, me, our love ones might be important, but on the grand scale we do our species a disservice.

The gay example. This drives me nuts. The christians in one side of their mouths are all about forgiving this and forgiving that, but they can't wait to send those gay sinners strait to hell. There are people spending a great deal of time trying to make "gay" itself a crime punishable by stoning (or at least jail time). What does it harm? "It harms the family!" Whose family does it harm? Yours? Mine? Nope. It doesn't harm any family. That's because gay people can't make families from having gay sex. If you want to stamp out gayness, embrase it. They don't breed. Built in population control just like the almight intended. Are you questioning the almighty's plan? If so, you are going to be in for a BIG surprise later.

Stupidity should be painful. We have no problem with this in the animal world. People are lining up to get shock collars for their dogs. "It will learn." The world needs more electric fences. People are thought of as more intelligent, so they will learn faster not to go where they don't belong right? Wrong, or at least apparently wrong due to the total lack of electric fences around places where people don't need to be. Like electric substations. At an electric substation, there is a tall fence with keep out signs, warning signs, no tresspassing signs, and barbed wire on top. Its sort of like a "don't come here sundae". Yet if some idiot ignores the signs, climbs the fence gets past the barbed wire and manages to discover electricity, the electric company gets sued.

If things in our society keep on going like this our gene pool is going to get weaker and weaker until one day coffee will have to be labeled "hot" and an idiot is going to be elected president.

Stop the madness.