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My family defends stupidity... oh joy!
14 years ago
This is just a bitch journal and I am sorry for cluttering your inboxes. You can ignore this, I just need to get this off my chest before my head explodes.
My brother has summer vacation off and usually, during summer vacation I am stuck with babysitting duties even though he is going to be 13 this year. Now my brother is smart in the sense of mechanical things. I think we all have our intelligence in different subjects so he isn't dumb. But some things he thinks are out there.
My uncle Chester (a complete bum) comes up here everyday to use our internet and my aunt gives him food (aka enabling him to be a bum). He decided to look up stem cell research and of course this leads to the cloning topic. My brother goes on to say that scientists were studying cloning so that way they could grow clones and use them for replacement body parts.
That is where I got angry.
Now, there is more than one reason that I got angry. First, that entire statement was propaganda in the first place. For the amount of time it would take to bring a clone to adulthood it would make the organs unavailable for that person to use them. Though I will admit that scientists were trying to figure out how to create organs from cloning, that level of propaganda that is based in ignorance pisses me off to begin with. The second reason is that the entire cloning stuff has been dropped for years now. Now it is just beating a dead horse for the sake of it.
The first time I replied saying, "The cloning thing didn't work..." and I was about to finish my argument when he starts going on about Dolly and spewing more propaganda at me. And I repeat louder, "You don't follow this stuff so you don't know that they are not even working on that anymore because the Dolly experiment failed." Then my aunt goes, "Don't be so snippy to your brother!".
I will admit I sounded snippy because he didn't let me finish what I was going to say and not listening to me, but this is bullshit! Why do you defend someone who is not only talking about something that they themselves don't understand or even bother to educate themselves with, but won't even listen when you use things such as logic to counter argument?
My brother has summer vacation off and usually, during summer vacation I am stuck with babysitting duties even though he is going to be 13 this year. Now my brother is smart in the sense of mechanical things. I think we all have our intelligence in different subjects so he isn't dumb. But some things he thinks are out there.
My uncle Chester (a complete bum) comes up here everyday to use our internet and my aunt gives him food (aka enabling him to be a bum). He decided to look up stem cell research and of course this leads to the cloning topic. My brother goes on to say that scientists were studying cloning so that way they could grow clones and use them for replacement body parts.
That is where I got angry.
Now, there is more than one reason that I got angry. First, that entire statement was propaganda in the first place. For the amount of time it would take to bring a clone to adulthood it would make the organs unavailable for that person to use them. Though I will admit that scientists were trying to figure out how to create organs from cloning, that level of propaganda that is based in ignorance pisses me off to begin with. The second reason is that the entire cloning stuff has been dropped for years now. Now it is just beating a dead horse for the sake of it.
The first time I replied saying, "The cloning thing didn't work..." and I was about to finish my argument when he starts going on about Dolly and spewing more propaganda at me. And I repeat louder, "You don't follow this stuff so you don't know that they are not even working on that anymore because the Dolly experiment failed." Then my aunt goes, "Don't be so snippy to your brother!".
I will admit I sounded snippy because he didn't let me finish what I was going to say and not listening to me, but this is bullshit! Why do you defend someone who is not only talking about something that they themselves don't understand or even bother to educate themselves with, but won't even listen when you use things such as logic to counter argument?
at the time I was all. 'Oh they cloned a sheep? thats cool, moving on." and didn't really give it a second thought.. I shall try to be more curious in the future ^^