I currently have an "upper respiratory infection". It is quite a pain. It involves a horribly sore, phlegmy throat, coupled with a strong desire to cough, which makes said throat feel like it's being sandpapered. Not pleasant.
I had to miss school on Friday. It was a B day - the day with all my hard classes. And I had to do a presentation. It's so much easier to do one when everybody else is doing one too...but when it's just you, it feels a little awkward.
I hate being sick, but it's a necessary evil if you think about it. Disease was originally a method of downsizing population, weeding out those unfit to survive. But now...modern medicine is prolonging life to the point where we have to debate when to pull the plug. I know it's human nature to want to survive, but if you look at it from a purely evolutionary point of view, we're poisoning the gene pool. People who are supposed to be bred out because of inborn weakness are continuing their genetic lines. Compared with other animals, we're getting weaker as the generations go on.
But I'm not an emotionless cynic. I appreciate all that medicine does for us, all the opportunities that it creates. Just because a person genetically not supposed to live, it doesn't mean that they don't have something to contribute to the world. Just like that baby who was born about at 20 weeks - super premature.
But that's how the world works, right? We have to balance the good of the many against the good of the few. We have to decide whether to sacrifice the future for the sake of the present. Weighing the moral right against the factual right. Life is so confusing sometimes.
Also...if you're reading this, instead of immediately flaming me for being insensitive, sleep on it. Just think about what I said.
Try not to be mean. Make love, not war.
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