Is Life Any Safer?

COMPOSITION 2 WEEK 6

It's not that we don't care about what goes on up in space: It's that the majority of society want to see what these untold billions of dollars can do. While great progress has been made in space research, we ask ourselves: Is life any safer? Are material goods more useful? Are we living to an old age because people are spending more money? Obiously the answer is no. Those in congress that show an intrest, they better listen up, for the nation's problems with crime, homelessness, and unemployment are right here on earth. Nothing is sacred including the budget for NASA, which should follow the footsteps of other programs and should be cut. Yes, that will be a shock to some who will have to deal with it, but there are just so many tax dollars to go around. And in today's society, wasting it on exploring the depths of outer space is not the way it should be.

How many times, while watching television, have you seen a dead body or someone being killed? Countless, because violence sells! However does this mean that the media is to blame for the growing number of violent crimes in our country? I believe not!

Many of today's television shows would be taken off the air if there wasn't some sort of violence on them. Take the show "ER" for example, they don't always show you how their patients become injured but they always show you the victims at their worst times. In the show "Law and Order" They never show the killer actually killing the victim, because that would ruin the whole show, but they always show the crime scene when it is first discovered. Meaning that there are dead bodies and lots of blood everywhere. The point is violence is one of the many things that human beings think is exciting, and usually when we conceive something as being exciting we try to either watch or carry out that act as much as possible.