Post #114084 by donhonyc on Sun, Sep 12, 2004 7:37 PM

Look at it this way: if there's a family picnic, and your cousin goes and whacks a bee hive with a stick, and it pisses off the bees, and some of your other family members get stung when the bees go crazy defending their nest, well, we will help and heal those stung as best we can. But we can't blame the bees if it was members of our own family who whacked their home with a stick. Killing all the bees isn't the answer - it's that rowdy cousin who we need to reprimand, family member or not.

If we leave the bees alone, we can have our picnic, while they pollinate flowers and make honey (oil!). If our cousin fucks with the bees, WE get stung. So it's the cousin who needs some lessons. America needs some family counciling, BIG TIME!

Great analogy and one, by the way, that I have heard used before in varying degrees. So it seems that some of us are using our heads when thinking about all this. Let's just hope that the 'counseling' comes sooner (ahem...November) rather than later. It never ceases to amaze me that we can make this analogy you have just described, yet any advances to avoid situations like this defy common logic. And while writing this I can just hear some political pundit saying "well...it's not as simple as batting a beehive". And I know there are folks out there that would say that. To them I say 'It's SIMPLER than you think" The operative word here is 'think'....let's start doing that.

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2004-09-12 19:41 ]