In class today. I was sitting in English not paying any attention to the world once again, lost in my own little reign. Until a book was placed on my desk by the teacher. (Everyone else got the book too) And we where told to write about a question he was going to ask. At first I'm like, okay I'll give my opinion and get this over with. He told us we could put it in bullet form, or just a sentence. I ended up writing a paragraph. The question was "How should we deal with the grossly or partially deformed children?" This question relates to both this world, and to the book we are about to read. (I'll give my opinion of the book once I am finished it) It's about radiation and children born deformed and stuff. So the teacher asked that question. And it got me thinking. Some people said they should be put to death, some said let them live and when they are old enough they have the choice to live or die. Some called them animals, some called them human. My first opinion: Our world revolves around 'perfect people.' And so why let the deformed live? If we let them live, they will suffer and as they grow up, face people who will bully them for their differences. If we let them breed into us, then how are we going to remain our 'perfect race?' We already have enough problems, and evolving into monsters will only make even more. What if they have something wrong with their brains, and we don't notice until it's too late. Or we become so devolved that it's impossible for us to even notice. As slow as the deformation would take, generation to generation our intellectual world could become weak, we could deform to the point we can't even take care of others let alone ourselves. We would soon enough die out, because we wouldn't be able to understand, or be able to even grow normally anymore. We would die out and become nothing but dust. So, to prevent this. We should put them to death at birth." That was my first opinion. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to sound mean. So the teacher had asked a random boy in the class to tell us about what he read. He told us, "why let them live if 'it' is no longer human, but mutants." That offended some people, and some agreed. All the guys agreed and all the girls thought that was inhuman to say. I though the same thing, why let them live if it will just cause us problems. The teacher gave a speech about "they are still human, just because they are deformed, or have a problem with them doesn't mean they are any less of a human, for example. Look at Stephen W. Hawking, he can't speak, he can't walk, he can barely control himself, and he is off creating black holes on earth." That got me thinking again, he's right Stephen W. Hawking is incredible, and very unique. So it made me think about, could they all be like that? Have a gift. What if you knew you where going to have a child that was deaf, and mute, blind. Would you kill the child before he/she is born? Because when you think to yourself, what use is a blind person, they can still talk and hear, they can learn to read brail? We can use mutes, they could understand us just not be able to talk. And deaf people, seem to not really understand anything. But if it was deaf, blind, and mute. Would you kill he/she? They are still another life, they are still human, just for their differences, no one is perfect. But, it's like keeping a neutral person alive. What's the point of working so hard to keep someone that can't learn, can't move, can't do anything for themselves. Alive? I guess this is all based on opinion. What's yours?
Makes you wounder doesn't it?
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War :: Military. Believe it or not, I've wanted to join the military since before I was eight years of age. And it's been my dream job ever since. But, I'm okay if I must give it up. I mean, no it's not just my boyfriend who is afraid of me going into the military. It's also friends. I can't say my family, because they think it would be good for me. And that I'd like it a hell of a lot. I get that all the time, "Desiree, if you go into the military, you're going to love it!" No, it's not just you Sebastian that said I'd like it a lot. It's many others too. I guess it would be good for me, I'm okay with being told what to do, and yelled at. ********, I've grown up with yelling at me all the time, and no it's not just my parents, but other peoples parents, teachers. I'm just a person you can yell at. smile Good thing, I'm not sure, bad thing, no. Without me being yelled at, my life is dull. I got worried my mum was softning up on me and giving me my space, instead of yelling at me all the time. And it felt weird. I know, I'm a teen, that's what I should want is my mum not to yell at me anymore and just leave me alone. But that's not what I want. Unless it's my step dad Rob. But I hate him to the very core. But anyways. I'm interested in this. And really want to do this, but there is only one person in this world that can stop me from doing this. That's my love, Sebastian.
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