Is Thisl Big Enough For All Of Us?
When a group of people are confined to a limited space where what one person does has to affect the others, we become conscious of how our actions determine the condition of all others in that space. A considerate person, for example, may postpone impending flatulence until they are outside the crowded elevator. Unfortunatly, there seems to be a lot of folks who consider it a right to avoid the need to control bodily function. Far from perfect, we could use the analogy of all the people in the world existing in the confinded space we call Earth. We've fooled ourselvess into thinking that if we can not see one another then out actions affect only us. That attitude has extented beyond the individual level and we are left with the assumption that we cam do what we want ignoring the others trapped in the elevator. Sorry. Afraid not. What happens in the front row of the elevator eventually contaminates the air in the whole cubicle. It's time to make a check on how the elev...