the ethical question of the day...

just because you are able to do something, does that mean you ought to?

as industry makes things 'safer'; soceity's intellegence shrinks. we have cars that will parellel park for you. now you do not have to be intellegent to turn a wheel and go in reverse. one less thing you have to think about.

we have cars that will alert you if you get too close to another car. so now you don't have to pay attention to what is in front of you. just drive in a straight line until the car beeps at you.

get on your cell phone while you drive, and pay more attention to the conversation than what is out in front of you.

so our thinking capacity is shrinking. there then becomes no need to think anymore. sit back and relax...everything is being done for you.

i was engrosed in conversation a couple of days ago with a woman who framed a picture for me, and we were talking about the youth of the day, and their thinking 'development'. speaking from experience...the kids of today don't care. in school all they want is a grade. not understanding. their analitical skills are for nothing. politically speaking...they have no clue why they are against what they are against. so the conversation moved to an over stimulus of information and ideas. so much is coming at them, that they don't know how to process it.

there are times when i'm reading, when i come across something that i find very interesting, i'll stop reading and think about it for a while before i pick up the book and continue.

so things become 'easier' for people, and thus they lose intelligence. where will it end? will it end?

just because you have the ability to do something, is there a duty to preform that act? a question that should not be taken lightly...

[shalom...]