Things that make you go "WTF?"

[unixronin]

Something I've thought about before, and which Pirate asked about on the way to the school bus stop this morning.  Most states these days have mandatory seat-belt laws for everyone.  Here in New Hampshire, seat belt use is recommended for everyone, but still mandatory for children (up to age 18, actually).  You can be cited and fined for not having a seat belt on your child.

So how come school buses don't have seat belts?

On a slightly different subject, NPR reported on the way back from the bus stop that medical insurers in New Hampshire are considering not paying hospitals to treat conditions caused by medical errors.

Sure makes sense to me... if I'm a mechanic, and I'm working on your car, and I fuck something up that was fine when you brought the car in, you should expect it to get fixed on my dime, not yours.  Why should a hospital be any different?

Comments

[house-pundit.livejournal.com]

Anyway, the point to that is that the only reason a number of childhood bullies don't kill their victims is because impulse and opportunity aren't there right together.

You have to go to some effort to take off your shoelaces or belt and garrote someone. You have to think about it first--more so in the case of the shoelaces.

A shoulder-belt already goes close to the neck and is so convenient a momentary impulse is enough to set one of the little psychos off.

Most childhood bullies grow out of bullying. But nobody knows what was different about the ones that don't, and nobody knows, out of the ones that do, how many had not conscience as children and have no conscience as adults, but are simply hiding behind the facade of one of the non-criminal or less-criminal variants of sociopathy.

The lion's share of sociopaths are never caught, and never have anything happen to them for it. Did the bullies "grow out of" being conscienceless bastards--or did they "grow out of" being so obvious about it as to get caught?

The non-psychopath sociopaths still have no conscience at all. They may be politicians, they may be the corporate guy who steals credit for his subordinates' work, they may be the back-stabbing socialite, they may be the bum on your sister's couch---but they all, if they knew they were immune from prosecution or wouldn't get caught, would kill you casually and with no remorse if you were in their way and/or they were bored. The only problems the non-psychopath sociopaths have with killing is that there are other things that they want more, getting caught would be a pain in the ass, and killing people is less interesting than their preferred "games."

[wyrdling.livejournal.com]

and i'm deleting this. i just don't feel like sharing it with google on public entry. not that i mind comments from from anyone here, i just know that if/when my mother finds out i have a livejournal she'll probably google everything i ever wrote :P
i'm not sure she even knows what a livejournal is. yet.