Dec 20 2005

“If it saves just one life…”

Published by Mugwug at 07:25:49 under General

I’ve long contended that the battle cries of the stupid are “It’s not fair…” and “I have the right…“. Unqualified use of either of these phrases seems to immediately trigger a reflexive sarcastic reaction from me, one I’m almost incapable of overcoming. It marks the speaker as at best an idealist, at worst an ignoramus who has no specific knowledge of the topic at hand. To this list I’ve been forced to add;

“If it saves just one life..“

Human life is valuable, but honestly if we as a society were truly concerned with saving lives regardless of cost we’d be living in a bankrupt dictatorship long before we’d finished getting rid of unsafe activities. Just remember the next time you hear this empty tripe that if we were truly interested in “saving just one life” we’d have banned both cars and alcohol years ago. According to the statistics that’d save not just one life, but thousands each year.

5 Responses to ““If it saves just one life…””

  1. # Mahgon 20 Dec 2005 at 10:26:03

    I had a long conversation with my Dad about “Saving one life.” It was concerning the 4th and 5th amendment.

    He sided with the idea that it’s okay to circumvent the 4th amendment in order to say one life. I contended that it’s never okay to gut the freedom of all for the security of one, and if one person dies as a result of it, as callous as it sounds, then that’s the price we have to pay to live in a (semi)free society.

  2. # Joshon 20 Dec 2005 at 19:30:33

    Not to mention swimming pools, tall buildings, every other form of transportation, pesticides and herbicides. And people - we’d have to ban people too. If it saves just one life…

  3. # Kristopheron 21 Dec 2005 at 15:23:22

    Nerf suits for everyone!

    Yaaaaaaay!

  4. # Mugwugon 21 Dec 2005 at 17:32:34

    -GRIN-

    Too bad the bad guys have that startling lead in anti-nerf technology, we should ban nerf research before our efforts are ruined!

  5. # Mikeon 22 Dec 2005 at 10:23:06

    I mentioned the car thing to an associate here at work, and you what really bugs me? Just how PO’d people get when you tell them their gas-guzzling, superfluous SUV is as much of a liberty to own as a handgun, and likely more dangerous. “But Mike, it’s completely different if someone steals my car and kills people with it. That wouldn’t be my fault.” Somehow, if my Para got stolen, I might as well have pulled the trigger instead of the person who fired the shot.
    Gun owners need the automotive industry’s PR guys…

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