Can You Waste Talent?
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razama wrote...
No but just because the action or lack thereof isn't malicious doesn't mean it didn't kill someone the you reasonably could of saved.
Yeah, and so what?
All of us are typing on a computer. We don't need it to survive, even our your current method of making a living is with a computer. We could reasonably donate a lot of what we have, still live comfortably, and save a hundred or so lives in africa from starvation.
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ShaggyJebus wrote...
This is a subject that's been brought up on House a couple of times, without a "right" answer ever being offered. It's always interested me when I've seen it, so now I'm sharing it with you.Let's say that a man is a genius. He's a medical researcher, and given enough time, he may be able to find a cure for AIDs and cancer. At the age of 30, he decides that he doesn't want to do research anymore; he becomes a barber instead.
If he continues in the medical field, he will help save millions of lives. But he doesn't want to work in that field any more. Does anyone truly have the right to say that he is wrong in his decision, or to force him to do research?
Some people are really good at certain things, so good that it almost seems like they have an obligation to do what they're good at. But each person is in charge of his own life, and he can decide what he wants to do and what he doesn't want to do. If a person doesn't want to do that which he is good at, can anyone say that he is "wasting" his talent? It's his to waste, so to speak.
Or should people with extraordinary abilities give up their personal desires and do what is "better for the world"?
Of course you can say their decision is wrong. But does that make it true? Facts and truths are two separate things. Anything in existence is a truth, especially ideas. Not much of an answer, but take from it what you will. Also, I just want to increase my post count :P
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Scion in chains
The Forgotten Faggot
Damn all that!
They said the same thing when I decided I didnt want to be a lawyer. That shit is fucking irritating!
Besides when you are a lawyer all fun of life seems to boil and melt away into this omnireality where everyone is just another step to some horrible and undeterminned fate that you are just positive is going to be bad for you.
I think that its a WASTE if you let yourself get held back from something you really want to do to make others happy. Fuck them. All that waste of talent shit is just a ruse because they are selfish bastards that want to use you to make their lives easier to live.
They said the same thing when I decided I didnt want to be a lawyer. That shit is fucking irritating!
Besides when you are a lawyer all fun of life seems to boil and melt away into this omnireality where everyone is just another step to some horrible and undeterminned fate that you are just positive is going to be bad for you.
I think that its a WASTE if you let yourself get held back from something you really want to do to make others happy. Fuck them. All that waste of talent shit is just a ruse because they are selfish bastards that want to use you to make their lives easier to live.
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ShaggyJebus wrote...
Let's say that a man is a genius. He's a medical researcher, and given enough time, he may be able to find a cure for AIDs and cancer. At the age of 30, he decides that he doesn't want to do research anymore; he becomes a barber instead.If he continues in the medical field, he will help save millions of lives. But he doesn't want to work in that field any more. Does anyone truly have the right to say that he is wrong in his decision, or to force him to do research?
No. He is not unique. There are certainly other people just as and even more intelligent than him in medical research. No point bemoaning the loss of a single person. Besides, there are no guarantees. I wonder how many other equally competent people dedicated their lives to find a cure for cancer to come up empty?
ShaggyJebus wrote...
Some people are really good at certain things, so good that it almost seems like they have an obligation to do what they're good at. But each person is in charge of his own life, and he can decide what he wants to do and what he doesn't want to do. If a person doesn't want to do that which he is good at, can anyone say that he is "wasting" his talent? It's his to waste, so to speak.Well I don't believe "talent" exists so I'll just assume you mean (potential) ability. To put it bluntly, yes, he is wasting his ability. That doesn't mean he can't be as good or better at something else though.
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Talent and abilities can be wasted. But you can gain outstanding abilities if u try hard enough, most of the time.
I think if the researcher in the example does not want to continue his work/project, then he can't even get the cure. If you don't put your heart into your actions it will never be what it could've been.
If there is something you're good at, let's say it's baking plain cookies, do you think they will taste as good if you just say "ahh gotta make some cookies 'cause my girlfriend is in the mood for cookies" and you are inaccurate with the ingredients you would propably fail is doing tasty cookies. Unless you are lucky and create a new sort of cookie wich just pwns every other one... I think I'm going overboard there...
I think you get what I'm saying.
You CAN "waste" ( rathe not use) talent, but if you're doing it because you don't want to use it, it's no waste. Just an ability you don't need.
Offtopic topic relevant ( not helping people in need):
You should be helping people in direct need if you can, like in an accident (not helping is even a crime in my country). But not donating money, which would most certainly help starving people can't be expected, how often do you think of people you don't know who are living on the other side of the earth? Yep, only if someone tells you about them, that's how it is for me. Furthermore I'm not wealthy or anything but I can't really afford to donate money...
But saying not helping people is like killing people is kind of wrong I think... Everyone should be firefighters or policemen if that were the case right?
I didn't say doctors because not everyone is capable of being a doc...
I think i wanted to say something else too, but i can't remember that now.
I think if the researcher in the example does not want to continue his work/project, then he can't even get the cure. If you don't put your heart into your actions it will never be what it could've been.
If there is something you're good at, let's say it's baking plain cookies, do you think they will taste as good if you just say "ahh gotta make some cookies 'cause my girlfriend is in the mood for cookies" and you are inaccurate with the ingredients you would propably fail is doing tasty cookies. Unless you are lucky and create a new sort of cookie wich just pwns every other one... I think I'm going overboard there...
I think you get what I'm saying.
You CAN "waste" ( rathe not use) talent, but if you're doing it because you don't want to use it, it's no waste. Just an ability you don't need.
Offtopic topic relevant ( not helping people in need):
You should be helping people in direct need if you can, like in an accident (not helping is even a crime in my country). But not donating money, which would most certainly help starving people can't be expected, how often do you think of people you don't know who are living on the other side of the earth? Yep, only if someone tells you about them, that's how it is for me. Furthermore I'm not wealthy or anything but I can't really afford to donate money...
But saying not helping people is like killing people is kind of wrong I think... Everyone should be firefighters or policemen if that were the case right?
I didn't say doctors because not everyone is capable of being a doc...
I think i wanted to say something else too, but i can't remember that now.