Why is it that all of our creations, inventions, plans, and hopes seem to in a way create an end, a demise, a black cloud of despair over our own futures which we're trying to preserve.
Our medications now are only proving to hurt our children. Vaccinations and immunizations that are being given to our children are greatly helpful, whiping some diseases off the face of the earth. But now, so many of our children who could've been raised completely healthy are growing up with autism because of being overly medicated. 1 in 66 children is now diagnosed with autism.
In our search to take of the world, to make things easier, more convenient for mankind, we're destroying anything and everything that gets in our way. We're very quickly destroying our world, melting our ice caps, tearing down our rainforests. We're facing a mass extinction the likes of which hasn't been seen in millenia. Hundreds of species are going to be whiped from the face of the earth, want to know why? Not some asteroid, not an ice age, but merely from our polution. Even if we aren't speaking literally of the polution of the air, soil, and water; how about the pollution of space? Our mere overpopulation is driving animals from their homes, their habitats, giving them smaller and smaller areas where it is considered ok for them to exist. If they dare to come into towns where their homes used to be they are killed or chased away. What can we expect from them? We, as American citizens are given the right to Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness. How is it that we cannot extend this basic respect to anyone other than ourselves?
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Good insight. I really think that we will be our own undoing. Humans have become highly unefficient creatures. We pollute, kill, and decimate forests, and then we complain about it. People are stupid. Technically, according to Darwin, we should have died off already due to that "survival of the fittest" idea!
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Though I must interject that humans have always been unefficient... well, insufficient really. According to Darwin we are in the right for destroying, as long as we are destroying the weak. (I am not a fan of Darwinism.) But I will try to steer away from the cliffs of scientific debate for the time being! At any rate, our destructive nature comes from a selfish desire. We could argue about the origin of that desire but I feel that would become too great a tangent as well. The only effective way to govern and limit the spread of any problematic behavior is to have a strong ethical foundation. Our nation has that! So there is hope. Nice to know...
Those rights (sprouting from the early ideas of John Locke's "Natural Rights") are promised to us because of the sacrifices of our forefathers. They based our nations laws on the ideas of early philosophers and on the Bible, and fought to keep it that way. I believe we see the sudden and extreme decline in the positive growth in ourselves and our environment, because we have come to neglect the principles and ideas for which founding fathers gave their lives.
We must be brought back to the realization that we are a gifted nation. We have resources and balanced power. We are on a steady decline into the valley of the irresponsible. As young people, we must accept that if we truly desire our country and our world to remain great (or even inhabitable) we must make it more than a whim - we must look to the past to design our future.
I agree with both of you, especially so with the "Survival of the Fittest" argument. According to natural selection the strong should survive, the weak should fall, and the species as a whole should improve. Instead we create more and more cures for the sick, prolonging their life and spreading and continuing the polluted gene pool. Our strong now dying at a more and more rapid rate due to war, risky behavior, even pollution and our own global suicide. Suicide, homocide, genocide. Essentially we're all killing eachother and ourselves.
As we hurt more things we have begun to see the effects of what we had all ready discovered. We learned that we could harness the power of fossil fuels to help make out lives easier and we searched for more things we could do we discovered that the fossil fuels hurt our environment. The more things we look for the more we see what we have done.
But now, so many of our children who could've been raised completely healthy are growing up with autism because of being overly medicated. 1 in 66 children is now diagnosed with autism.
I'd really like to see your proof that more children are getting autism because they are being over medicated, because every study (save one) that I've seen seems to demonstrate that vaccines are not the cause.
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I'm afraid i have no clear source anymore, its been a long time since i last saw the article and i'm afraid i can't find it anymore. a lot of the information and basis i say that from is professors, nurses, and parents.
looking into it though, i have found one site that had a very good article on other areas in which children under 18 are being more medicated than treated, medicine and pills are becoming the easy, quick, go to fix instead of actually working with these children and helping to find some help for them other than drugging them.
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/271/142/
Oh, I fully agree that as a nation (probably as a world, but I haven't seen medical systems in other countries, so I don't know for sure), we are over-medicating ourselves. However, I have yet to see any news about how this over-medication leads to autism. And I subscribe to several health feeds every day and flag all the ones I see about autism, because my sister is afflicted with it.
As a side note, please click the reply link at the bottom of the comment you wish to respond to, even if it's the last one in the thread. It keeps the conversations clear when blogs fill up with tons of comments.
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