Elinda wrote:
Gee Miss Flea a bit defensive?
Why? Are you feeling attacked?
To answer you, no. I don't need to feel defensive to argue my position.
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You have gone and taken my original post all out of context - you're well aware of that, I think.
Not aware it
had a context. I believe that what I did was place it in one, which you then mocked as not relevant (because I'm no doctor) rather than accept that yes, there are exceptions to your original statement and continue along your way.
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All types of communications are important and any normal human being, myself included, is not going to turn their back on another that is in need. Particularly those people we care about.
I agree. I hold that making yourself unavailable in such a technological age
is turning your back. You are making a conscious decision to guard your private time from interruption, no matter who interrupts you or why they do it.
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At the same time I can't let anyone be so dependent on me that if I couldn't, for some unforseen reason, reach a telephone that they wouldn't know what else to do. I know there will be exceptions, but those are only that - exceptions.
You know the old saying, right? "Be prepared." Again, if you choose to put your faith in the system, so be it. I have no say over your choice. I just think it's disrespectful to look down on people who don't make the same one. Does it make a difference to you? Of course not. Neither should the fact that I think that you're wrong.
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There are very few circumstance where, if there was a real emergency I would want someone calling me and not 911....even if they're confused and unsure, even if they don't speak the language. The dispatchers are trained to deal with confused non-native people.
Again, if you feel like you're lost, you don't know you're having a medical emergency. You call your family for help or directions, and it turns out you make no sense, so they call 911 and it turns out you are delerious with fever. How should they know they're going through a medical emergency? They may just feel tired and confused. Oh, and about confused non-native speakers... Not all. The budget doesn't allow for people that speak multiple languages at the end of every 911 call. When my loved one asked for help, they wer told that they were drunk and hung up on. The fever had slurred their speech. I knew them, and I knew this wasn't the case. I was lucid, and I could argue for them.
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I think it was pretty clear that I was originally speaking about those people who are on their cell phone ALL the time,"attached" was the term I think I used. It's become a crutch for many. You can go to any public place and watch people use their cell phones to divert their own attention away from other people and their surroundings. It's sad, not to mention careless.
Pot, meet kettle. Again, you assume that you know the reasons and motives behind people's actions. There's truly nothing I can say to you to make you gracious and caring if you're just not. Nothing in your original post indicated that it was anything other than a blanket statement.