Caltrops - Rants





	[quote name="Cyrris"]Historically, pain has been the ultimate teacher <i>to those who know how to learn</i>. Take a rat for example (Sorry V). If you present a rat with a new color of food pellet that happens to be poisoned, the rat will eat it, get poisoned, get well, and <i>never touch a food pellet of that color again</i>. Take a human child. Child sees hot stove, child touches hot stove, child screams his/her head off, child never intentionally touches hot stove again. This all assumes that the creatures in question actually <i>learn</i> from their mistakes. Unfortunately, people (especially those between the ages of 14 and somewhere in the 20's) refuse to learn sometimes. Its the whole "I'm fucking invincible" attitude they take on untill the universe says "Here, catch! Oops, was that too large for you to handle? Here's an even larger problem". Trying to teach someone "if you do this, it will hurt" just doesn't fucking work. The best I've seen done is "Here is <i>WHY</i> you hurt. Remember that, if you survive." You can't save an individual from their pain, especially if they've inflicted it upon themselves, but you can help them learn from it. And if they can't/won't learn from the mistakes they survive, pray that Natural Selection doesn't notice them. Just an itty bitty piece of wisdom from someone <i>just</i> old enough to begin looking back and say "What the <i>fuck</i> was I thinking?" -Cyrris [/quote]