In Washington state, a seventy-seven year old man has had several life saving things done, by the state, to prolong his existence. Big deal. Yeah, until someone tells you this man, with his power wheelchair, who survived a stroke, a heart attack, and skin cancer is in prison for killing someone.
What makes this story a shocking waste of money is not the man's age, or health concerns, or even that he's a killer. Where the issue comes from is he's been there since 1993, and he still has fourteen years left on his sentence. This makes his thirty-one year sentence almost certainly a life sentence. Now, consider this, when someone receives a life sentence, they are sentenced to the term of “no less than their natural lives”. Your 'natural life' means without any extra-ordinary life saving measures.
What do you think? Should the government prolong the lives of people who won't see the light as a free man?
Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Monday, August 16, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
A Matter of Opinion
What you need is a matter of opinion. Not you need an opinion, but what you actually need, that is someone's opinion, and it sure as shit won't be yours.
Today, I went to PSU, and I gave them my information as to what “reasonable” accommodations it might take for me to be a functional college student on their campus. It is someone's call as to whether my assistant who is going through all my classes with me, and going for the same degree, anyway, it's somebody's opinion whether letting her be in all my classes is “reasonable”. Their way of justifying such nonsensical behavior, is that they are not accommodating her. Even though she is my primary “accommodation”. My mode of transportation, and so on.
Their fix for my inability to take a language successfully is equally as ignorant. They offered me (or I should say, they plan to offer me) an adapted spanish course where, get this, the passing criteria can be pretty much whatever they think I need it to be. The course is self-paced, and I was told point blank they've put non-verbal students into it. At this point, why not just let people have the credits. Shit, at least let me. I have taken a whole year of ASL, and two terms of Spanish, already. Putting me in a class like that, in my opinion is an insult. Credit me what I paid for (and passed, mind you) and make me read Dostoyevsky. That should satisfy two requirements.
As for other adjustments, no one seems to understand “maybe”. As in I might need extra time, sometimes. I might maybe need my laptop for some classes. Sure, I could use a note-taker, but until I need one. Instead, it seems like I have to make myself out to be a fucking gimp, instead of who I am, and what I can do.
Today, I went to PSU, and I gave them my information as to what “reasonable” accommodations it might take for me to be a functional college student on their campus. It is someone's call as to whether my assistant who is going through all my classes with me, and going for the same degree, anyway, it's somebody's opinion whether letting her be in all my classes is “reasonable”. Their way of justifying such nonsensical behavior, is that they are not accommodating her. Even though she is my primary “accommodation”. My mode of transportation, and so on.
Their fix for my inability to take a language successfully is equally as ignorant. They offered me (or I should say, they plan to offer me) an adapted spanish course where, get this, the passing criteria can be pretty much whatever they think I need it to be. The course is self-paced, and I was told point blank they've put non-verbal students into it. At this point, why not just let people have the credits. Shit, at least let me. I have taken a whole year of ASL, and two terms of Spanish, already. Putting me in a class like that, in my opinion is an insult. Credit me what I paid for (and passed, mind you) and make me read Dostoyevsky. That should satisfy two requirements.
As for other adjustments, no one seems to understand “maybe”. As in I might need extra time, sometimes. I might maybe need my laptop for some classes. Sure, I could use a note-taker, but until I need one. Instead, it seems like I have to make myself out to be a fucking gimp, instead of who I am, and what I can do.
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