And In Canada Today ...
News of the day in a country civil and wealthy beyond the dreams of so many other countries of this world.A country whose citizens live privileged lives of constitutional protections, equality under the law, plentiful clean water and inexpensive nutritious foods, a universal medical and health-care system, orderly cities replete with comfortable homes of every description.
A country where its people are free to speak their minds without fear or favour. Where freedom of association, ideology, religion are guaranteed and protected by law. Do we value these freedoms? We most certainly do; no one need have any doubts or qualms about that.
Do we behave as rational beings at all times, in recognition of our privileged lives? Not on your life - or anyone else's for that matter. Canadians experience irrational anger over the merest incidents and inconveniences, as would a spoiled child.
We are, in other words, people like any other. We've received ample academic education and life-management skills, but remain incapable of governing our instinctual emotions accordingly. As beings, we are fundamentally and perhaps irremediably flawed.
Examples abound:
- In Toronto a man was stabbed by a fellow bus passenger who was angry that the other had uttered a greeting. A 30-year-old man, sitting beside another younger passenger, merely acknowledged his presence with a friendly, non-committal "hello". Whereupon the other countered with "why do you say hello to me, I don't know you?" When the greeter disembarked at his stop the angry young man followed, then stabbed him three times before running off.
- In Newfoundland an enquiry is underway into incorrect test results at a St.John's hospital laboratory which resulted in hundreds of breast cancer victims given incorrect results, being given inadequate or no treatment, between 1999 and 2005. One hundred women have since died, although it is inconclusive the extent to which the botched tests contributed to the deaths, as yet.
- Montreal police are attempting to solve a series of crimes linked to anarchists. A car dealership had tires on 20 vehicles slashed, causing $10,000 damage. Three ATMs were damaged by small fires. Six police cars outside a police station were set on fire, causing heavy damage. Responsibility for the incidents were claimed by three different anarchist groups.
- A woman was found decapitated in a Toronto apartment early in the week. A 60-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder.
- A 56-year-old man has been charged in Oshawa with a death that occurred 30 years ago. The man was arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of a 22-year-old woman, a former neighbour and family acquaintance in Durham. She was shot at the back of the head, and discovered lying a few metres away from her 10-month-old child.
- After a three-week binge of break-ins and thefts, a Toronto man was arrested after a police foot-chase through the city's subway tunnels. The 39-year-old man faces over one hundred charges in six Toronto police divisions.
- In Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, police called to a home to help evict a 44-year-old woman from the residence, scuffled with the knife-wielding female, and one officer "discharged his service pistol", killing the woman.
Scientists reveal from time to time what they have managed to uncover and understand about our sheer mechanical wizardry in design. None can comprehend, much less explain those electrical synapses that inform our brains what we are about.
We see, we feel, we act, we think. What is the mind? Is there a soul? Is the mind different from the soul, or are they co-operative entities? What makes us spiritual beings? Why are we so tragically blighted?
Labels: Environment, Realities, Social-Cultural Deviations, That's Life
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, March 20, 2008
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