Ontological Arguments (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, September 30, 2010, 04:24 (5167 days ago) @ xeno6696

Ok, I know a bit of programming, mainly C++ and a touch of java, so I follow you. The question is, would the average Joe or Jane follow you? If all of our modern infrastructure came tumbling down, and no more food flowed over the highways and airlines to McDonalds and the supermarkets, how many people would starve because they do not know how to grow a garden or hunt an animal? I work with navigators who do well enough, as long as they have a computer interface, but give them a compass, a map, and some spanners and ask them to figure out how from from point a to point b, and they are clueless. I see people routinely who can not count out proper change if the machine doesn't tell them how much to give. And while I agree that to an extremely limited extent, antibiotics are useful, we have abused the ever-lovin hell out of them and now we are reaping the benefits in the form of weaker immune systems and rapidly mutating viruses. How many die in the U.S. every year because their AIR CONDITIONER breaks? Thats not even a necessity for pete's sake, they simply do not know how to live. They know how to exist, which is an entirely separate thing.