theblindspot

05:00 pm:

 

I love this picture. You've probably seen it before but I just thought that I'd share it anyway.

He's so cute and evil looking.

 

 

08:26 pm: Human compassion and fire safety
So I was having this conversation on a message board and it went like this:






My best friend’s brother is a fireman and he was talking about how he was taught to rescue people. He gave me a situation- there’s a grandmother, a child, and a father inside a burning building. All are unconscious.

Which do you save first and why?



Lindsay
The child. It's the youngest. The grandmother has had a while to live, the father, too and has had his chance at life but the child hasn't. It needs the chance to grow up.

Someone else:
The child.

Because he's the future.


phonopsia
No. You don't save the child first.


Phoenix
The father because he can have another kid?
angryvenice
The grandmother?

Lindsay
Why shouldn't you save the child first?

xx_sweatie


First the child, Then the dad, then the grandmother.

bottled_up_malice

You save the grandma first because she is not as strong.
phonopsia
It's the father.

You rescue the father- the provider of the family- first. Not the children or the elderly. The father provides for the family by an economic standard, thus, he is the first taken from the building.

Lindsay
That's crap. I say sr3w it and save the kid.
angryvenice
Same here.
phonopsia

It's amazing, is it not?

kaiba200092

That is horrible. I say the child, then the grandmother, then the father. Human compassion.

medallion777
Kids are the future. What is this father stuff I hear?

whooshwiggywiggy
That makes sense; children are troublesome, old people are wasting away anyway.
Save the Money. He'll probably donate to the firestation later.

xx_sweatieThats sooo stupid.

phonopsia

Without the father, according to my local fire department, the family cannot provide for themselves by an economic standpoint. Which- in this situation- IS true.

I have mixed feelings about leaving the child behind, though.

Lindsay
The family? What about the mother? She can provide. If that's the whole family and the child and grandmother are gone then there is no family. The kid can always go to someone else like friends, family, or a foster home.

phonopsia

There isn't a mother in this situation, though.

I asked him about IF there was a mother, though, and said she'd be saved second. I don't understand why females are second, but I suppose the order is father, mother, child, and then elderly.


Lindsay
Besides, you basically know the father's potential. Sure, when some kids are kidnapped, or die of a disease the parents step up and help others and stuff to keep it from happening again but it's not as likely with a fire. With the child we have no idea what his/her potential is. They could do something amazing.
monson_is_hot

No it's not, because what if the child is the ONLY one to get out and the father and the grandmother were their only family? They'd be sent to a foster home! I'd rather of died in the fire! So they take out the dad, he is young, to and extent, and he can actually make income

orlando_hojo

Alrighty. So if it's a desperate situation, and only one person can be saved, you would save the father, so he can provide for the family he isn't going to have.


Lindsay

If there is no mother and no other family, there is /no one/ for the father to provide for so that doesn't make sense.
phonopsia



Unfortunately, who or what an individual is doesn't come into focus when there's a burning building. Firemen get the facts, head in, and do what they're trained. I find it hard to accept- if there's a burning building you don't think TWICE about who to think first. You get whoever you can.

Lindsay
You'd rather die than get sent to a foster home? Not all foster homes are bad and abusive. Some are really good. The kid would be better off in one than dead.
phonopsia

One child and a grandmother.
If they do survive, it's a family.
If they don't, then you're up a creek.

Lindsay
You should print this off and show those bizzatches what to do when they're faced with that situation, ie: save the kid.
phonopsia

I'm not sure if it'll do any good, showing on how stubborn they are, but I suppose it'd be worth a shot.
whooshwiggywiggy

Saving a child would be completely worthless, though. It's only contributions to the economy are through how much it's parents are willing to spend on it.


phonopsia

By an economiv point of view, it does make since, and that's the point of view I saw it from...

But judging from a mother's or father's or silbling's point of view, it's very upsetting.



Lindsay
Pfft. Fsck the economy. One average dude isn't going to make much of a difference. It never does.
phonopsia


Well, the economy and the well being of the family.
If there IS a family to save, afterwards, that is.
_kestrell_

Well I certainly wouldn't save the father. Who cares about him? Economic provider my 4ss. The kid can grow up and be an economic provider, too.



Lindsay
But from your scenario there /isn't/ a family afterwards. Although, I don't suppose that there's any real right answer because no matter what you do there's always a 'what if..'
phonopsia

Hell, for all we know the kid could come back to consciousness.

It's always a 'what if' situation, that's agreed.
wonderment

Jack writes: It's sad, but human compassion is scr3wed. Save the kid and the grandma, and then the family dies poor on the streets.

Logic is cold and harsh, but it's logical.




Well, Fuck them, save the kid.

07:47 am:

Heck yeah.Found this somewhere. Don't really remember where I found it but I came across it i my pictures and I had to post it.Oh, and this one too,

 

 

07:20 pm: Okay I am officially suffocating in my house. He had to spray again and so I covered it up with aerosol stuff and now I can't breathe. I'm dying here. Literally.

06:50 pm: M'kay so Thrice isn't the best band ever but I'm in love with their lyrics if not their singing.

06:41 pm: ^^
"The Melting Point Of Wax"

I've waited for this moment
All my life and more
And now I see so clearly
What I could not see before.
The time is now or never
This chance won't come again
Throw caution and myself into the wind.

There's no promise of safety with these secondhand wings
But I'm willing to find out what impossible means.
A leap of faith.

Parody of an angel
Miles above the sea
I hear the voice of reason
Screaming up to me
"You've flown far too high boy now you're too close to the sun,
Soon your makeshift wings will come undone"

But how will I know limits from lies if I never try?

There's no promise of safety with these secondhand wings
But I'm willing to find out what impossible means.
Climb to the heavens on feathers and dreams
Because the melting point of wax means nothing to me.
Nothing to me
Nothing to me

I will touch the sun or I will die trying.
Die Trying.

Fly on these secondhand wings
Willing to find out what impossible means
Climb to the heavens on feathers and dreams
Because the melting point of wax means nothing to me
Nothing to me
Means nothing to me
Miles above the sea.

I so < 3 this.

08:28 pm: First was good. We're watching the Odyssey. So it went like this:

Movie: Ody starts making out with Calypso
Daniel:Pimp
Others: Laugh laugh blah blah
Daniel: Odysius is a pirate
Kevin: And a man-whore
Daniel: All pirates are man-whores


Some other funny crap.

During youth

Everyone was playing ultimate frisbee so Ms. Coleen, Joe, Chelsea, Tatiana, Me, Jeanna were playing "football" it developed into everyone tackling each other. Jeanna and Chelsea double-teamed me and didn't get me down then I got Jeanna down and Chelsea got me down by herself.

I feel kinda pushed out of church so I've been avoiding when I can, which is bad, but it's all good. Well....that's not really good but I was happy and bouncing a laughing today. 'Cause you know Jeanna's awesome.

Then Me and Jeanna (Jeanna and I sorry) were sitting before we went outside and it was like:

Jeanna: Idiot
Me: Hooker
Jeanna: Something I can't remember
Me: Pirate Hooker
Jeanna: Something really long that was really funny but I don't remember but it was really funny even though this is pointless.

Then I came home and my house smells horrible because my dad was spraying something in Adam's room and I'm never going to be able to sleep because I can't sleep when it smells either bad or a smell that is overwhelming. This is both. I'm going to die tomorrow at school from lack of sleep.

Took the Drug and Alcohol class. Four fricken hours of useless, pointless, crap that even the deputy teaching it told us was useless, pointless, crap. IT was so boring but I knew people. About 7 of the 20 even though I didn't talk to them all because one or two were on the other side of the room.


Now I have a headache from the stupid smell. It'll just get worse and their is no where in the house without the smell. They opened my door even though I keep it closed so the smells of the rest of the house don't get in and only mine stay in, so the little tiny bit that could of helped is lost and it smells worse in there than out here because my room is closer. I'm quite annoyed.

04:55 pm: Ever notice how one person can make a perfectly good, happy day go bad with one comment? I was happy and bumming around doing nothing and now I'm all like wthf? Leave me alone.

04:08 pm: -yawn-