Monday, June 21, 2010

A Perspective I Fail To See..

If I say,    
  • All women above age 30 are fat.. would that mean there are no slim women above age 30?
  • Research states terminal illness patients may recover taking a certain supplement.. Does that mean all of them cure patients with terminal illness?
  • All men think with their head down south.. does that mean all of them do?
  • Staying in the urban city is far much more stressful compared to living in the rural towns.. Are we all that stressed out then?
I can continue these statements from many different directions.. and yet there will be no standard answer to all.. everything is relative and a matter of perspective to who, what, where, when and how you relate to the matter at hand..

The phrase knickers in a twist  might ring a bell for some.. As I read a barrage of messages on difference in opinion about maturity in comparison to age.. Mine was a matter of opinion formed from books I have read and experience as well.. and I got bombarded with outrage and name calling as well.. read below excerpts of the messages:-  

XYZ        :   Maturity is NEVER measured by age... So it doesn’t matter if someone’s 2...or 7...or 27....or 72!!!  Character is a better bet at JUDGING maturity.... Just my 50 cents worth XXXX.

Me         :   ABC; not all as lucky as u.. was talking generally.. The majority according to research is not as u state..

XYZ        :   Research?! Men are being JUDGED based on “research” ?!?!?!? I’m sorry but that   is just bs to me lar... Just because you take a bunch of people (men or women) and talk and test them out....doesnt give anybody the right to GENERALIZE judge the entire population of men or women.... And another thing...this is nothing about “LUCK”... it’s ALL about FAITH and FATE.... That’s what LIFE is about....
                   
XYZ        :   Dhena:- what you said about age vs maturity ...just insulted a whole host of young men out there... that’s not very fair....neither is that being very matured....

Judging from the reply above, one would have deduced the 'ranting' was more personal and emotional as opposed to the matter at hand...  If research was really BS (bullshit), chemotherapy will not exist, there will be no prevention for pregnancy, our hair will be matted without shampoos, non existent of handphones, we will be walking everywhere without cars, we wont have paper, radios and tvs will be will be unheard off, let alone computers and internet.. the list is really endless when it comes to research and innovation..

So, the first agreement MUST be.. Research is pivotal to the advancement of humanity...  Unless one still wants to live like captain cavemen in the jungles..

My only question is what brought on this 'ranting'???  Much is left to be said.. when one looses the objective of the banter and decides to get into name calling.. then its no more banter but rather an emotional outrage.. but then again all this is a matter of perspective.. 

wise or otherwise, you decide.. 
dhena

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