Mord_Sith said:
(medicine man is almost as old a job as prostitution!)
I always wonder which cretin was the first to state that prostitution is the oldest job in the world. Where is the proof of that? Anyone dug up any fossil remains of whores recently?
To me, it seems to be the same kind of wisdom as 'when a woman has her periods, she can't make mayonnaise' or 'if you put a spoon in the opening of a bottle of champagne, the champagne will not lose its bubbles'.
As for scientists tinkering with the compounds of life: it's their friggin' job so leave them be. I get cramps in my shitter whenever I hear some retard say that scientists shouldn't mess with such divine material, that there should be rules and laws and morals to experiment with (human) life. Those are usually the same retards that see no problem whatsoever in driving their SUV to the bakery just around the corner, polluting the entire goddamn planet, and basically messing around with life on a much larger scale. They're the ones that are fascinated with guns and bullets, the ones that vote for mad politicians who have no problem experimenting with human dignity and self-esteem.
One of the reasons why the "greatest" things since bread came sliced are cellphones, mp3 players and ridiculously "fast" computers is because - since WW2 - scientists do not have 'carte blanche' anymore. Just imagine how much progress we could have made if there wasn't something like 'ethics' to hold us back. When scientists dream about sending a manned mission to Mars, there are a billion organizations ready to tell them something along the lines of 'that's crazy, what about this and that, we can't risk the lives of three, four, five astronauts for something as crazy as that. WTF? There are 7 billion fucktards on this planet and some reatrds say we can't wager the lives of three, four, five of them to actually make some progress? It's the same thing with war these days, isn't it? They send thousands and thousands of soldiers to the battlefield and when a couple of them die, it's like: "WTF? That isn't supposed to happen! How can we let that happen? It's so inhumane! We have to boycot that war. We have to stop this madness." And so on. While, to my limited knowledge, that is exactly what happens in a war: people get killed. Always has been the case and always will. <rant>
Aw gawd... I need to stay away from these sad fora. They make me feel like this world is primarily inhabited by morons. Which is probably the case, but still. It ain't healthy. I can't even bother to explain in detail because I always know some wisecrack will eventually pop up (usually in the shape of some artistic Polack or school-going Dutchie or acne-infested Yank) who will start quoting his schoolbooks or some book by a modern philosopher or another pseudo-intellectual and it's just so tiring, it's just so pointless to even try and defend yourself, it's a pack of wolves who still suck their momma's nipples, but you can't win, it's the whole Charlie Brown versus Lucy and her friends tragedy I know from my favourite Peanuts comics, you just sigh, you just whisper "good grief" and you hope the cramps will stop as soon as possible, you just...
*sigh*