Post by Wyldcomfort on Mar 11, 2007 8:38:35 GMT -5
I think we're all going to have to stay inside from now on, and make it against the law to do anything.
Awareness is one thing, and it's wonderful that somebody creates the data to see where risks are, and help people understand risk. But legislation, if applied to every aspect of our lives, would then lead the question, what is the value of life.
I remember when I was a boy (about 4 or 5) we were camping and fishing near a lake. My mother - afraid I would end up with a fishhook in bedded in my finger, sowed salmon eggs on the end of a string. For several days I walked carrying my wood stick with wound string and tied on eggs blissfully to the waters edge and began to fish. I was happy to be doing the same as my brothers (I thought) passing a little time fishing. I was discouraged a bit when after several days I'd caught nothing, but thought I would be persistent and succeed before our departure. On the last day my mother, feeling sorry for the gag, tied on a hook, and was full of instruction how to hold and be careful of it. I was the only one that caught a fish that trip, but I always felt god was teaching my mom a lesson.
We learned another important lesson on that same trip - another little boy camping near by (just a little older than I) fell into the water- his hiking boots filled with water and anchored him to the bottom. I could see him, but I couldn't swim. The adults were on the other side of the cove, but running frantically to get there. The boy was pulled from the water - I ran to chase down a forest ranger that was driving by - but he never heard or saw me as he sped by in his green truck. The respirator he carried would have saved this boys life- but on this day it was strapped to side of a speeding truck, and cpr was not enough to fill air into the boys lungs. I may have been small - but to this day I feel I should have done more - and of course I don't wear boots near the water.
Now using the logic of our law makers I suppose fishing, walking next to the lake, and camping should be restricted activities. Yes the boys parents were devastated, And yes it's a vision I will never forget, but unfortunate things happen and we can't stop enjoying our lives because of risk. We should impose risk management, and educate to reduce injuries. After that nothing more can be, or should be, done.
Thank you,
Collin Summers
Awareness is one thing, and it's wonderful that somebody creates the data to see where risks are, and help people understand risk. But legislation, if applied to every aspect of our lives, would then lead the question, what is the value of life.
I remember when I was a boy (about 4 or 5) we were camping and fishing near a lake. My mother - afraid I would end up with a fishhook in bedded in my finger, sowed salmon eggs on the end of a string. For several days I walked carrying my wood stick with wound string and tied on eggs blissfully to the waters edge and began to fish. I was happy to be doing the same as my brothers (I thought) passing a little time fishing. I was discouraged a bit when after several days I'd caught nothing, but thought I would be persistent and succeed before our departure. On the last day my mother, feeling sorry for the gag, tied on a hook, and was full of instruction how to hold and be careful of it. I was the only one that caught a fish that trip, but I always felt god was teaching my mom a lesson.
We learned another important lesson on that same trip - another little boy camping near by (just a little older than I) fell into the water- his hiking boots filled with water and anchored him to the bottom. I could see him, but I couldn't swim. The adults were on the other side of the cove, but running frantically to get there. The boy was pulled from the water - I ran to chase down a forest ranger that was driving by - but he never heard or saw me as he sped by in his green truck. The respirator he carried would have saved this boys life- but on this day it was strapped to side of a speeding truck, and cpr was not enough to fill air into the boys lungs. I may have been small - but to this day I feel I should have done more - and of course I don't wear boots near the water.
Now using the logic of our law makers I suppose fishing, walking next to the lake, and camping should be restricted activities. Yes the boys parents were devastated, And yes it's a vision I will never forget, but unfortunate things happen and we can't stop enjoying our lives because of risk. We should impose risk management, and educate to reduce injuries. After that nothing more can be, or should be, done.
Thank you,
Collin Summers