<200105211432.kaa24...@interlock2.lexmark.com>, oover...@lexmark.com inimitably wrote: >I once read a safety article (tongue-in-cheek I believe) that said that the >safety industry was weaking the species by allowing the weak and feable to >continue exist and procreate. I believe that this was directed toward the >mentally weak and feable (read stoopid). > >By warning them about things that generally intellegient people would know were >hazardous, this "special" group would reproduce and create even more "special" >people. Ultimately, the "special" people would out number the others to such >an >extent that homosapiens would face extinction. > >One of the assumptions was that these "special" people, through their routine >actions, would eliminate most of the other people through collateral damage. >(e.g. drunk drivers, cell phone drivers, equipment operators, greedy managers >with only the bottom line in mind (otherwise known as bottom feeders)) > >Well, it has gotten to the point, as Tania has so elegantly pointed out, that >the safety profession only facilitates this; but the legal and political system >now rewards being "special" (again read stoopid). Not only do we protect them >and allow them to procreate, we pay them large sums of money to those "special" >people for being so "special".
This is a distasteful posting, and even if you wrote it in innocence you may find you get attention from extreme right-wing elements. The idea that low intelligence is a dominant inherited characteristic is simply not true. There is a heuristic observation of an 'equalization' principle in human and other animal inheritance; unusually tall parents have tall but not so unusually tall children. Many highly intelligent parents have children whose intelligence is not so outstanding. Some simple parents have genius-level children. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically- applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and excavating implement a SPADE? ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
