Eworld Net

Discipline

Filed under: Uncategorized

There is one thing that it is very easy to see when it is missing from people, especially children. You would think that by now people would have figured out that it is necessary, you could even call it a necessary evil. Perhaps one of the big problems with it is that the people, parents, who should be providing it to the next generation, their kids, are often unfamiliar with it themselves. Either unfamiliar or flat out running the other direction whenever a situation shows up that might require it of them.

This complaint is not really about parents, though. It is more in line with a general discussion on being disciplined enough to take responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions. This comes up because of the several articles in the news recently of people who have had really unpleasant things occur to them through their own actions, and then, of course you have those who feel that we should pity the person who brought things upon themselves. Honestly, to a point I agree with that. But when a person’s actions intrude on freedoms of another, then I got no sympathy for them. They did, they can pay and no need to punish anyone but them. Of course, sadly, their families and friends often get punished as well because they care for these people, even though they deserve what they are getting.

Three articles I thought kind of fit together, all talk about discipline in one way or another. One goes over the actions of a school principal who has taken to using a paddle to bring discipline back to a school that badly needed it. In another place a person shot and killed one of a pair who were stealing his truck. The police are not going to press charges against him for it either; which is a good thing. The last of the three talks about a British lady who is up for execution in Laos because she was caught smuggling drugs. I have to say that every single person, from the child who gets paddled to the woman who already died to the woman who may die deserves, perhaps pity, but no sympathy.

Tags: British, discipline, drugs, execution, Laos

Polo

Filed under: Hmmm

Polo ponies dying isn’t a good thing, especially if you like horses. I had seen the title of a few articles and heard on the news about the death of the 21 horses. I had thought they were race horses, though. Although, it really doesn’t make much of a difference. They are all the same thing to the general public. Horses. I myself like horses, quite a bit. I have ridden horses in many different places and different terrains around the world and I even spent part of my childhood, when I was shorter, around them.

The 21 dying at once sounds a lot like somebody made a horrible mistake or somebody was making a statement. Anybody who would use horses like that to make a statement is kind of crappy in my book. I didn’t entertain the thought of it being on purpose until I read a Time article on it, then it kind of crept into my thinking. They figure it was tainted medicine, but the question is why did the horses get it? There is even question about whether the medicine was legal for them to be giving to the horses in the first place. The FDA says, no.

Then you have the owner, a Venezuelan banker, who reads like some sort of shady underworld czar. That impression could be wholly from the way they wrote the article, but I am going to run with it anyway because it sounds more reasonable than their vet did an oops and killed 21 of their horses.
He has had several legal issues in the states, including having to pay fines due to lying about information he had. According to the article he can’t invest in US banks without government permission.

He has houses, cars and everything else you expect of those who are big time in a shady world. The horses are supposedly worth around $100,000 each, and he transports them on private jets. There seems to be an indication that he cares for them and is not hurting in any way that would make him try to dump them. It looks like they were important to him, which makes it even more likely that somebody was either threatening him or warning him.

Tags: drugs, horses, polo, underworld, vets