TheInsanity1234 wrote:People demand changes to reduce risks and decrease the average death rate.
Therefore people in power make these changes to reduce the average number of people dying in a set time-frame and to keep themselves in power.
The death rate decreases, and all is well for about a year or so, then people demand re-newed changes to reduce the number of people dying even more.
The people in power make even more changes.
And it goes on, until the death rate reaches 0, which is impossible.
But it'll just keep going on.
zadocbrown wrote:... We all know that every local speeding crackdown ends up catching the very people who called for it..
WhoseGeneration wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:People demand changes to reduce risks and decrease the average death rate.
Therefore people in power make these changes to reduce the average number of people dying in a set time-frame and to keep themselves in power.
The death rate decreases, and all is well for about a year or so, then people demand re-newed changes to reduce the number of people dying even more.
The people in power make even more changes.
And it goes on, until the death rate reaches 0, which is impossible.
But it'll just keep going on.
Yes, a good reply and summation but and there's always a but, why do not people just do this theirselves?
It is within their power, why pass responsibility to any other?
MGF wrote:
I don't think WG will find noskilling preferable to deskilling.
WhoseGeneration wrote:Current politicians don't want an able population.
Douglas Adams wrote:“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
jont wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:Current politicians don't want an able population.
Well quite. The last thing they want is a population that realises just how inept the politicians are and how self-serving our current political system is.Douglas Adams wrote:“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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