Walter, hope you're doing ok. [completely OT]

[Kevin Bealer]

== Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wrede at nospam.org)'s article
> Walter Bright wrote:
> > Brad Roberts wrote:
> >
> > Not so fun fact: Numerous people died because they either brought their
> > generator or charcoal grill inside. You'll poison yourself even running
> > the generator in the garage with the garage door wide open. It got so
> > bad that the newspaper ran front page headlines warning people about this.
...
> I think the worst possible combination of personality traits is an
> enterprising attitude combined with profound ignorance.
> OTOH, if these morons didn't get pruned every once in a while, the
> average IQ of mankind today would be about 20. Mother Nature does
> Eugenics for us, sparing us the moral conundrums.

That might be, but education is probably more to blame than IQ, and
selection doesn't stop at the individual level.

Individuals that lack sense get pruned by nature.  But societies that
lack compassion and respect for human life, are destroyed or turned
into bonzai varieties by a much larger gardening process.  If a house
that is divided will fall, what happens when a society divides itself?

I can think of a lot of dumb things I've done that almost got *me*
pruned, so I say if you can print a warning about charcoal burners
in the paper, do it.  It might saves lives, and these days printed
newspapers are in need of good reasons to justify their own survival.

Kevin