Assignments from Ms Ginger Michelle Chadwick #6: Making our Highways Safe

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Assignments from Ms Ginger Michelle Chadwick #6: Making our Highways Safe

ESP
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since 2000-01-25

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Floating gently on a cloud....

0 posted 2004-12-07 07:16 PM

Making Our Highways Safe

The first thing that comes to mind? Stop us all from driving on them! Then they would be ultra-safe: for pedestrians, animals, birds…

Of course “highways” does not necessarily refer to the roads we drive on. This term has also been applied to the Internet. Internet highways upon which information travels, at break-neck speed, to a thousand destinations. These highways are no safer than the ones cars use. Attempts to make them safe are often viewed as an infringement on our rights to freedom of speech.

I suppose if we were to ban all drivers from the first type of highway, they would view that as an infringement too, right?! The safety of both sorts of highway depends on the individual. It is every individual’s responsibility to drive safely, obey speed limits, avoid alcohol and the zillion other little courtesies that make the journey a little smoother for everybody. If the highway runs through a rural area, you slow down in case of deer. If the highway runs near a school, you slow down in case of children crossing.

Equally, it is every individual’s responsibility to use the internet highways with respect. Of course, we can’t see where they are going, whether there is a school there or a wood, or just a huge field full of corn. Though we are working on getting it all signposted, so that, for example, the porno cars don’t get mixed up with the kids colouring pages. A slow process.

At the end of the day, the only thing that is going to make any highways safer is being considerate and remembering that you aren’t the only one on the road! Come to think of it, being considerate and thinking before we act could save us problems in many more areas than just highways, real or virtual.

"Time has told me not to ask for more, one day our ocean will find its shore" ~Nick Drake

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

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1 posted 2004-12-07 07:34 PM

Lizzie,
That too was clever. I like how you expanded the topic. I wouldn't have thought of that. Excellent job. More fun reading, well done.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Hollow_Emptiness
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since 2004-02-01

Posts 715
New Zealand

2 posted 2004-12-07 08:12 PM

Yes, I wouldn't have thought of any of these when faced with those topics in the assignments (written both with entertaining and sad stories from Larry and ESP) a recent documentory that just hit our shores, said that any child could be a genuis, they just have to expand their thinking. Your writing is most definately showing that expansion of thinking. Well enjoyed,

Hollow.
Courtney.

I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. - Gary Jules, Mad World.

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