The following letter to the editor was originally published in the
Arizona Republic. Author lives in Phoenix.
Every day some new do-gooder is trying to save us from ourselves. We
have so many laws and safety commisions to ensure our safety that it seems
nearly impossible to have an accident. The problem is that we need
accidents, and lots of them.
Danger is nature's way of eliminating stupid people. Without safety,
stupid people die in accidents. Since the dead don't reproduce, our
species becomes progressively more intelligent (or at least less stupid).
With safety, however well-intentioned it may be, we are devolving into
half-witted mutants, because idiots, who by all rights should be dead, are
spared from their rightful early graves and are free to breed even more
imbeciles.
Let's do away with safety and improve our species. Take up smoking.
Jaywalk. Play with blasting caps. Swim right after a big meal. Stick
something small in your ear. Take your choice of dangerous activity and
do it with gusto. Future generations will thank you.