Headline, November18, 2013

''' !!! COSMIC JUSTICE AND HUMAN

 REALITY AND TEARS !!! '''

HABIB KHAN IS DEAD! This brave young lad,  passed away in the early hours of one Tuesday for his heavenly abode.

Those of you who may care to visit the Mother Blog -the camp fire log- will find archived, our wishes and prayers for him, when the Cancer struck,  over a year and a half ago.

Just recently, I walked a long distance, -and braced  myself-, to meet him. We then shared many laughs, and many memories. As I rose to depart, he insisted on walking me to the main exit. I embraced him. And he suddenly asked : ''' !Why me?! '''

in this hour of pure grief, who better to turn to then Dr Thomas Sowell:

Some ideas are so far-fetched that no one who actually thought of them could really believe them. But such ideas my be fiercely defended because they are the basis of other things that people do believe in

''Equality'' is one of the crucial far-fetched ideas of our time. From the soapbox demagogue to the highest court in any land, statistical disparities in outcomes have been treated as virtual proof that somebody was treated unfairly.

Apparently there is no way that they could have performed differently, because of the implicit assumption of equality.

Yet most people would be hard pressed to name two individuals who perform equally. What we usually mean when we rate two individuals equally is that they have offsetting advantages. But the same man is not even equal to himself on different days, much less at periods of his life.

Anyone who has watched tennis matches, whether on the local playground or at Wimbledon, has seen player A come out and totally annihilate player B in the first set  -and then turn around and lose the match.

Not only equality but superiority is very unreliable.

What many people mean by equality is that the races, the sexes or other large groupings of people have no innate superiority over others. However, innate superiority, inferiority or equality are about how people are at the moment of conception.

But nobody takes an I.Q. test at the moment of conception, nor do they apply for colleges or a job then.

By the time they do these things, a lot has happened   -and it has seldom happened equally.

Even before the child is born, the mother's eating, drinking and smoking affect the formation of the little body inside, including the formation of the brain. The children of teenage mothers have lower I.Q.s, even when you take account of all sorts of social variables.

There are significant I.Q. differences among identical twins when one is born substantially heavier than the other. Apparently whatever has allowed one twin to gain more nutrition during their development leaves the other permanently a little behind mentally, long after they have grown up and their weights are the same.

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This post is most respectfully and most lovingly dedicated to the lasting memory of Habib Khan, and to the great hospital, and its splendid staff:

Shaukat Khan Memorial Cancer Hospital.

''' We all battled Cosmic Justice and Human Frailty '''.

Alas!

Good Night & God Bless!

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless