So now the Trump and his surgeon general want us all to carry naloxone
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Why not? I carry a 4mg Narcan nasal in my med kit. Granted, I have a full tactical first aid kit, but you never know what the hell you are going to come across or if help will be quick to arrive.
if Heather Bresch gets wind of this, Joe Manchin will push legislation requiring citizens to purchase Narcan and have it with them at all times
Well, the fact that touching something right after it was touched by some junkie can kill you may not make this a bad idea. I had to take a whiz at Speedway the other day and it's one of the places where they have changed the bathroom lights to blue so people can't go in there and shoot up. Makes you think.
what's the thinking behind blue light preventing drug use? i honestly have not heard about this
Makes it harder to locate veins.
If I saw some heroin junkie overdosing in front of me and I had narcan with me I wouldn't administer it. We need to let natural selection take place. Thin out the herd a little.
It makes it more difficult for them to find their veins...
http://www.businessinsider.com/sheetz-new-kensington-blue-light-opioid-epidemic-2017-12
I think you’re confusing natural selection with Social Darwinism. Natural Selection isn’t an evolutionary device for the betterment of society. It’s an evolutionarily process that increases the likelihood of producing offsprings therefore increasing the likelihood of the species survival. Social Darwinism on the other hand was a misguided belief that you can somehow engineer the betterment of society by eliminating the weak and unfit. The subscribers to that ideology were the same ilk that brought you the holocaust and the KKK. No...I’d say that allowing people to die when you have the opportunity to save them is the opposite of natural selection and more a symptom of a society whose members are losing the ability to feel empathy.
This is the typical response from a deplorable - void of any logic, fvcking up the educational aspect of it, and exhibiting grotesque ethics.
Yet you voted for the anti-American. Sounds like you're a traitor:
“I was at Mar-a-Lago and we had this incredible ball, the Red Cross Ball, in Palm Beach, Florida. And we had the Marines. And the Marines were there, and it was terrible because all these rich people, they’re there to support the Marines, but they’re really there to get their picture in the Palm Beach Post… so you have all these really rich people, and a man, about 80 years old—very wealthy man, a lot of people didn’t like him—he fell off the stage,” said Trump.
“So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died. And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away,” said Trump. “I couldn’t, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him… he’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red. And you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor unconscious, and all the rich people are turning away. ‘Oh my God! This is terrible! This is disgusting!’ and you know, they’re turning away. Nobody wants to help the guy. His wife is screaming—she’s sitting right next to him, and she’s screaming.”
“I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up! It’s disgusting!’ The next day, I forgot to call [the man] to say he’s OK,” said Trump, adding of the blood, “It’s just not my thing.”
This reminds me of a chaper in Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. Marquis Everemonde is attending this upper crust reception and when he leaves he’s mad at how the host just made a cursory appearance and didn’t spend much time with the guest. He orders his carriage to be raced through the city and delights at how the commoners have to scatter to keep from getting run over. Sure enough the carriage strikes and kills a young child. Evrémonde is so p***ed that the incident and the child’s father’s grief has caused him delay of getting home that he tosses a few coins out the window of the carriage and curses the grieving father for having the audacity to cause him this inconvenience. He then angrily orders his driver to move on.
What Dickens understood is that there is a disconnect between those born into wealth and the poor. But the good news is that when I read this part to my 4th graders, they were upset that someone could be that cold and unfeeling. So I do believe we’re hardwired for empathy. I don’t think we’re born uncaring. But when you spend your entire life privileged, somewhere along the way, as you surround yourself only with others of privilege, you become totally disconnected from what life is like for those who are less fortunate.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy;
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy;
Raoul I commend you. What if that person dying is your son or daughter or niece or next door neighbor. Addiction is a disease. You want to outlaw diabetes medicine. Its a disease.
“Fvck Dickens!”——Bobby Axelrod
I've never watched Billions, but the guy who plays Axelrod, Damian Lewis, was very good in the series Life. In regard to your response, I was going to use Victor Hugo in my example because I'm almost through Les Miserables. So you might want to find a good quote using Hugo because I'll likely be using something from him in the near future.
Very intense and concerning topic. Personally, I've always been about personal responsibility and accountability. I make choices, I have to live with them. And, I grew up dirt poor in a single parent household.
I'm about personal responsibility as well. But I'm not sure my belief in it would prevent me from saving the life of someone who is dying in front of me if I could prevent it.
I've never watched Billions, but the guy who plays Axelrod, Damian Lewis, was very good in the series Life. In regard to your response, I was going to use Victor Hugo in my example because I'm almost through Les Miserables. So you might want to find a good quote using Hugo because I'll likely be using something from him in the near future.
“Billions” is brilliantly written. And as you point out, an incredible cast too.
It’s worth watching.
How about some clarity? If I come up on you or one of your family members and you're going to die if I don't do something that I'm able to do to preserve your or their lives, it's ok if I just walk on and blame it on your life choices?
You could use that excuse to justify many heinous acts:
- See a guy get hit crossing the street? Well, it was his decision to leave the house today, so fvck him. He needs to take personal responsibility for jaywalking.
- Guy at the table next to you is choking on food? Well, it was his decision to order meat and not chew it enough, so fvck him. He needs to take personal responsibility for eating red meat.
- Girl is getting raped in the alley? Well, why is she walking down an alley wearing a skirt that short? She needs to take personal responsibility for dressing like a slvt.
Thanks for the clarification, Dr. Tyson. Also, thanks for drawing the comparison of my lack of empathy for selfish, often violent, criminal drug-abusers to those of Nazis and the KKK. Saving them just places more burden on society. I would compare my charitable-giving, volunteering and other empathetic acts of yours or anyone else on this board. I will always help those who truly need and deserve help. Heroin addicts do not.
Yeah, you should save their life so they can break into another person's car or house to steal their property. Extend their life to give them more opportunities to get behind the wheel of a car and endanger the lives of innocent people. Keep reviving them so their mere existence can consume the time of first-responders who could otherwise be responding to the needs of respectable members of society. Hopefully none of your loved ones will need an EMT or ambulance one day only to find their response is delayed by selfish, drug-addicted zombies.
Translation:Yeah, you should save their life so they can break into my car or house to steal my property. Extend their life to give them more opportunities to get behind the wheel of a car and endanger my life. Keep reviving them so their mere existence can consume the time of first-responders who could otherwise be responding to my needs. Hopefully I won't need an EMT or ambulance one day only to find their response is delayed by selfish, drug-addicted zombies
GK is doing his part. It’s also empathetic feeding the addictions of gamblers. Keeping video lottery locations in business is the “needle exchange” for the gambling junkie. Also, taking the time to walk into one of these depressing locations also allows one to take credit for attempting to gain a better understanding of the desperate poor. Compassion and empathy on full display, indeed.
By all means, post your receipts (because I know you use them for tax write-offs if you actually donate) for your charitable giving (and real receipts, not the forged ones you've made on your computer in the past to post on here). If you are even within 25% of mine from January 2017 until today, I will donate $5000 to a charity of your choice in your name.
Volunteering? Again, give some legitimate proof of your hours. And cleaning the neighborhood for a few hours one Saturday doesn't count as "volunteering." I'm willing to bet that even during football season - a time when I spend 14+ hours a day, 7 days a week working - I still spend more time volunteering (legitimate hours doing legitimate things) than you do.
You want to compare empathetic acts? This may be a little harder to measure, but based on the results of the first two, and based on your comments, I think you'd be hard-pressed to be anywhere close.
Months ago, I mentioned how I was introduced to a jobs corps here that I didn't know existed. Guess why they have a new vehicle which allows them to take those students who can't drive to Walmart, the library, and interviews multiple times a week. Guess why a home/school for out-of-state mentally under developed students now has free housing for the parents of those students when they come to visit? Guess who the local children's shelter (it's an orphanage) tried naming the boy's two bedrooms after due to being able to renovate it allowing for more beds, getting televisions, and painting/carpeting it? Guess who got sprayed with a toxic substance in the face while trying to stop a crime last month (police report provided upon request)? Guess who walked nearly ten blocks trailing a woman who couldn't get away from an abuser during a bad date, only to have them both turn on me when I stepped in after she yelled out "get away from me" and cried hysterically after he threw her phone down out of her hand and broke it? Guess who then disappeared when the cops showed up (oh, and Jeezy's bodyguard was a bitch and didn't come with me). Guess who was threatened with a gun (but they never showed it) by three guys in front of Walmart after I stopped one of them from trying to fight a 5'3, 300 lbs. 50 year old who was walking with a cane? And all of this stuff goes back to just last October.
So, by all means, lets compare. You trying to compare empathetic actions to anyone after what you say about addicts makes me think you don't know what the word "empathetic" even means. There are plenty of addicts who don't steal or commit crimes against others to support their addiction. One of those was Jaime Foley. Jaime was the older sister of a girl I messed with while living in Florida. They came from a good family of working professional parents. One of the sisters is an attorney at the biggest entertainment agency in the country. The other is a student at the Boston Conservatory. Jaime tried everything possible including living in two strict halfway houses. She ended up ODing 11 months ago. Be sure to read the obituary:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ne...ry.aspx?n=jaimie-lea-boel-foley&pid=185621121
I would be more than happy to compare my charitable giving to yours. My CPA has all my receipts at the moment. We will definitely revisit this.
Wow, you truly are superhuman. 14+ hour days, 7 days a week, plus your 20 mile hike every day, and 3+ hour days of sex with beautiful women who you definitely respect because you're a "me too'er" and totally wouldn't exploit them by posting pictures of your conquests of them for internet points with strangers.
Of course I wouldn't. How could I? I hope this leads to a long story about how awesome you are . . .
Yep! There it is! Btw, you misplaced the apostrophe in "boys," unless there was a single boy who has two bedrooms. Remind me to tell you about the time I saved an immigrant family of 12 from a fire. The parents couldn't speak any english, so I just hoisted them all on my shoulders and carried them 23 miles to safety across a bridge that I had to make only with tree bark and rope.
I would tell you to spend more of your time helping them, but you're already cramming 46 hours into a 24 hour day.
Hike? Now, wait just a minute. I thought you tried correcting me and telling us that a hike is only terrain that you aren't able to run. Even though every dictionary's definition says otherwise, you insisted on your own definition. Are you now admitting that your attempt at correcting me was futile and wrong?
And I am glad that the truth makes me appear to be superhuman.
Yes, at 3:30 am, I may have not been functioning at my highest level (which is still superior to yours). It was a long night. After the sold-out Miguel show, he and his brother wanted to sit down and tell me about their trip to Mexico to meet their father's family for their first time ever. Then, instead of being able to jump in my car and get home, I had to take pictures with the large group of girls waiting outside of his tour bus.
You should try having a work ethic like mine. People close to me think I overextend myself, but they don't see the true ingenuity in how I efficient I am able to make myself. I mean, just look at what time I last posted (when I went to bed) and what time I am up this morning. I have my body functioning at optimal levels while needing far less recovery than the average Greek god.
Rifle...seven hours of sleep isn't exactly depriving your body. It's basically the average amount of sleep every human gets every night.
I’d love seven hours of sleep. I wake up in the middle of the night four or five nights a week. I learned the best thing to do is just reach for the kindle and start reading until I get sleepy again instead of tossing and turning. My alarm goes off at 5:30 on weekdays so that can make for a short amount of sleep. I guess I’ll have to make it up when I retire.
