Just think about it

So I have watched teh news very little the past few days, but have noticed one thing that is getting on my nerves. The flooding of Cajun country in Louisiana. Now this flooding is a man made disaster, why? Because teh flood gates have literally been opened on sparsely populated cajun country to avoid a catastrophe like the one we had in New Orleans from Katrina. But this flooding of the mighty Mississippi raises not only ethical and moral questions, but governmental and political abound, and it goes hand and hand with philosophy. So today lets talk about a few of the issues involved in the flooding.

For one I am going to ask you all a question and I want responses, theyy can be short, long, detailed, or whatever I just want one. So when i took this ethics class in college we were asked a series of questions and this was one of them:

"You are standing next to a train track, and next to that track is a track diversion mechanism,  where the track will split into two tracks. You are standing there and notice one guy working on the track to the left, then you see five guys on the other track to the right working on the track. All of the sudden you hear a train, and you see the train coming down the line, but the men working do not. You see that the train is headed straight for the five men, but you have the power to divert the track to the one man, either way you are going to sacrifice somebody, that is if you are involved at all. So what do you do? Do you save the five lives? Or do you save the one life?"
^ Most people will say ont he basis that five lives is greater than one, thus they would move the track to the left and sacrifice the one man, and save the five guys. But couldn't you have left it alone? Maybe the one guy was a father, and the other five were hardcore criminals who were ordered to help fix the track. Or we could go in any other direction on the subject, but in the end it comes back to this:

This is the Mississippi and yes it's flooding. And the Army Corps of Engineers has decided its best to flood sparsley populated cajun country to save New Orleans and Baton Rouge again. Now at face value, yes it makes sense, it makes about as much sense as diverting the track to the one guy and saving the other five. But why do we have to this? Well once again you read my blog and im a smart guy so im going to tell you why.

We all remember the summer of 2005, levees broke in New Orleans, FEMA was a disaster, and we found out exactly how weak and fragile our infrastructure is. And nearly six years later, we are facing the same problem. Why are we even facing this problem? Why are the levees not able to hold this water? Why is it that we must sacrifice the others to save the others? If we would actually spend the money to fix these things, we wouldn't have to do things like this. Ruin lives, ruin homes, and even in some cases death. This is just like Katrina, it's a man made disaster, with some help from mother nature. It is a complete disgrace and no doubt a slap in the face of the people of cajun country. if we would invest in our infrastructure and strengthen our levees around these big cities, this conversation would not be happening. But it is happening, and now we must figure out what we will do about it.

happy reveling

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