Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Chances

Nietzsche believes that "the healthy should be segregated from the sick." I see his point in that the "sick" will bring down others by their negative attitudes, but who is he to define who is sick and who is healthy in order to determine how people are segregated? He says that the sick are "those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed" but we do not have a way to examine people and know what type of effect they will make in our world until after they have affected the world. Everyone deserves a chance rather than being labeled as either healthy and being expected to positively impact the world or being labeled as sick and a waste to society.

1 comment:

Peyton said...

While I believe that the sick should be given a chance before being separated, when I have a cough or am sneezing, my friends usually tell me to stay away from them. I also tend to stray from them if they are sick. My roommate and I get mad when our suitemate coughs and sneezes all over the mirror in our suite. It's pretty nasty.