Woman Distracted by Texting Drives Her Car Into a Lake

[TheMadMonk]

93. WRIT LARGE! The idea that it's easier to give in to petty selfishness...

...and bloody minded refusal, than properly regulate against it.

That very real, irrational stupidity, so much a device of Hollywood, that causes a parent to abandon life or cause great harm to any number of others, for the briefest of moments longer with their child.

In a world of mindless action and reaction that is exactly the way to bet, because every time circumstances change, new choices immediately become available and the only currency of import is the genome, so any chance for a moment to fuck is all that ever matters.


In a world of forethought, of law and regulation, and mind, it's the ultimate and most pointless of selfishness, because it overlooks all evil, if benefit can be found for me and mine. It's the destruction of fisheries; the dumping of toxic waste; the clear felling of forests; it's monoculture, herbicides and pesticides; It's everything which trades distributed harm for concentrated benefit.

At it's edgiest, it's asking yourself the question of when it's truly appropriate (as opposed to acceptable, understandable or forgivable) to kill another human being (including those closest to you) or simply to (by whatever device available) compelling them to a course of action contrary to their own imperatives.



The ultimate and only True Democracy is the one in which franchise is exercised by the sacrifice of one's own personal future when circumstances demand it. Even unto that scene from the final episode of M*A*S*H when a mother smothered her own child to offer a degree of improvement short of guarantee to the chances that she and others might live.



All that existential angst over that which separates us from the animals: Language; Tool use; environmental modification; and even the ability to extrapolate. <bullshit, rhubarb, bullshit>

How's this for an idea and a half? That which makes us human is nothing less than an anticipable and malleable future.