(I'm sorry if this sounds disjointed; I burst into tears while thinking about it)
I know I usually talk about this stuff anyways, but... This is different.
Last week, I listened to one of the most angering, self-serving...ASSHOLES I've ever met.
But it wasn't just that he was a typical "I-am-better-than-you" kind of talk, or the know-it-all. It wasn't even a quiet condescension. It made me lose faith in the human race a little more and when I got home I cried. It was truly angering.
We had somehow started onto the topic of cancer and he said something like, "You know, they shouldn't even find a cure. I mean, if we find the cure, than thousands of jobs will be gone and then thousands of people unemployed and then our economy will go down!"
How could someone even say that? We didn't start looking for a cure for cancer so people could get jobs. Is it worth it that thousands of people die every day, just so people can keep earning money?
Is it okay for people--entire families--to suffer because of cancer? For people to die, slowly?
Did he really think people searching for a cure didn't want to find the cure? It gave me a view of what he saw his future as: get a job just to earn some money; don't get a job cause you love it or it's meaningful.
I am so disappointed and just thinking about it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. This is the future of our generation: self-serving, greedy people aiming only for prestige and wealth and not the good of people--the original cause of doctors. I am so disappointed; granted, there of course are people who do care, but all those around me... How can people do this? Think only of themselves? It hurts me so much. It disappoints me so much.
I don't think it's okay that people who are privileged will abuse their knowledge this way. I know someone who is not as smart, nor does he have supportive parents, who fails school but saves animals in his spare time. That was offtopic, but...
It's just...not right. How could someone could even say something like that? Cancer or economy? Sure, the economy is important but... Human lives are at stake here. Human suffering.
I can't believe people would think that coldly. Logic doesn't make everything better.
If I were a vindictive or cruel person, I might hope he gets cancer someday. I might then go to him and say, "Bet you wish they'd found a cure, huh?" I'd smile viciously.
But I'm not and I don't believe in karma and if he did get cancer I'd still feel bad for him.
I just...Sigh..
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I think sometimes people say that stuff to get attention and be different. But that was so insensitive and ignorant to everyone affected by cancer. Both of my grandparents were recently diagnosed with cancer and although it didnt directly affect me, I still want them to get better, especially because it puts a lot of stress on my mom. I'm so disappointed in people who say stuff like that. It just shows how ignorant and uncaring they are. All they care about is money, but money compared to life is nothing.
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