content: A rather sobering thought I had a thought while on the shitter that I found rather sobering.  The more we do to take away nature’s ability to dictate survivors, the more horrid depths we have to take on responsibility for caring for.  Why does a place like skid row exist?  Even the dustbowl camps of despairing families wasn’t the horror of human suffering that is skid row.  The more life saving techniques we use to prolong the lives of the morbidly obese, the less humanity they retain as they fall further down into the depths of helplessness and indignity.  The more people we unnaturally retain the more hellish nature we reveal in ourselves as they just go further into a behavior that should have killed them years before. We make those who work to care for these people responsible to endure and try to treat levels of illness and injury that we never have had to before.  Just eh...