Bobkgin
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Joined: 7/28/2007 From: Kawarthas, Ontario, Canada Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: FullCircle Rather than site the police/fire… etc. as being selfless maybe you should consider why they joined in the first place? I’d be grateful to them for risking their lives as anyone would but it’s not selfless they do get something out of it themselves. I happened upon this post in my "take a break from studying subnetting" boredom. I spent years working for EMS, first as a volunteer...I also worked as a firefighter VERY briefly (that kind of HOT just isn't my thing). Believe me, the people that stay in EMS/Fire are what i would consider selfless....they don't get nearly as much out of it as they put in....but the key being....at least with the ones I associated with....they didn't expect to get anything out of it.....well, they did get their desire to help others fulfilled....but that's about it, cause in rural areas especially, it doesn't fill your pockets and it doesn't make you a "hero" in people's eyes. They didn’t get an adrenaline rush from what they did? Shaking head. Yeah, they all run into burning buildings, risking their lives, for adrenalin rushes. ...and oh yeah, if they can grab a kid or put out a fire, that's just bonus. (o.O) quote:
I’m not knocking people that risk their lives they are heroes of course not. Who could accuse you of that after you've insinuated they're all adrenalin junkies? Imagine the surprise those adrenalin junkies got on 9/11, huh? (O.o) quote:
but I wouldn’t describe them as selfless. You do realize that there are people on this planet capable of accomplishing things you cannot, right? Just because you can't do it doesn't mean no one can. quote:
For me that’s a different characteristic entirely. and what characteristic would that be? the guys who died on 9/11 trying to save people from the World Trade Center were just selfish adrenalin junkies whose different characteristic was ?
< Message edited by Bobkgin -- 9/1/2007 4:12:11 PM >
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When all is said and done, what will you regret? That you never really lived? Or there was so much living left to do? For those interested: pics and poetry have been added to my profile.
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