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Oct. 22, 2006 All through history people have had a thirst for blood. Unlike the animals, who kill mostly for food, humans have killed for sport, entertainment, pleasure, and their ideal of justice. Cain murdered his own brother. Many other biblical characters murder relatives. Even King David’s own son tried to murder him. David killed a soldier, so he could have his wife. In biblical times, criminals were stoned to death. The Greeks murdered babies who were born with something wrong with them. They pushed old people off the cliff. Indians sent their old off somewhere to die alone. Roman used circus and gladiator fights to kill slaves, criminals, and wild animals. They had plays where the characters were really murdered before the audience. They crucified some of their criminals. They had battle re-enactments where the characters were actually killed by one another. America once had public hangings and killed their criminals. Today, we use the death penalty. Also, we often leave our elderly in nursing homes and mental institutions where many of them die without family. We slaughter animals by the millions to use as food and never bat an eye in sympathy. We abort our unborn as easily as we do DNCS. Recently, we allow our old and sick to starve to death by removing their feeding tubes and IVS or we refuse them advanced medical treatment. My question is this. Are we doing any better than the Greeks, Jews, Indians, or Romans did? Perhaps, we think that we are, but there is much improvement yet to be made. We have improved in animal cruelty. Many experiments have been banned. Laws have been placed that protect our pets from cruelty. We still use dangerous sports and wrestling matches to fulfill our fantasies, but draw the line when it comes to the safety of the participators. We do try to slaughter our food animals as painlessly as possible, but this is not always carried out. We legally put our homeless dogs and cats to sleep. We say it is painlessly, but is it? Yet, over all, it seems that we have improved some, but I feel we took steps backward when we allowed abortions and began removing feeding tubes. What’s next-suicidal killings of the terminally ill or mentally incompetent? Let us strive to make laws that move foreword and not backward. Sports and plays have greatly improved. We now satisfy our lust for blood by these and those participating have all volunteered. We do not push our elderly of deformed off cliffs. However, we need to improve in the care of our elderly, mentally incompetent, or deformed ones. We preach against and criminalize marijuana and other illegal drugs, but at the same time we sanction the drugging of our mentally ill and elderly by using doctors and prescription drugs. Go to most institutions and nursing homes and observe the patients. Come back and tell me these people are not drugged nearly out of their minds. I am almost certain that this over dosing of these patients are the causes of their confusion, zombie-states, and the reason so many of them have strokes and heart attacks. Just because these prescription drugs are sanctioned by the government, FDA, pharmaceutical companies, and physicians, does not mean that they should be monitored by some independent agency to make sure the patients are not being given too much. Or does somebody have a great money-making gimmick going and look the other way when it comes to the safety of the elderly and mentally ill? I know of a teen-ager who once got on drugs and was sent to a mental institution for help. Instead of receiving help, he was pumped full of their legal drugs and barely knew his own family when they went to visit him. They concluded that his marijuana use was much safer than the legal drugs that the doctors there were giving him and took him home. All medicines must be used with wisdom, but they, too, can be misused. Let us seek to improve the quality of life for all species by removing all obstacles that cause pain to any of God's creatures. ------------ About the author: Joan Shortridge, a widow, has a BA Degree in Elemtary Education and has taught home-bound children. She home-schooled her own children because of religious reasons. She has published a book on LULU.COM called BABY AND MEOW. It can be found under Book, Children, Animal category. She has signed a contract with PUBLISH AMERICA for her book, A GNOME IN THE HOUSE, a fantasy. She uses her own children and dogs as characters in her books and the setting is usually her hometown, Gate City, Virginia. Download BABY AND MEOW for $3.00 on LULU or a printed copy is $13.50. Joan's store is: Lulu.com/retha Email: rethashortridge@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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