Thursday, January 12, 2012

For "BP #2 - Taking advantage of someone"

Actually many of my friends took advantage of my skills and knowledge on computer components.  The event happened so many times, so I thinks who and where are not important anymore.  They had came to ask me for repairing their computers, building new desktop, asking which laptop is better, requesting for additional futures, or increasing performance, blah blah blah and so on. Do they pay for me? No, never, probably ever, except the cost of the components.  However, I am totally fine with this since it is part of my habit, and I did not lose anything.  Moreover, I gained more experience for helping or answering them.  Happy? Not always, sometimes the work could be very annoying, but I never had any negative emotions with these things.

This maybe little bit long, if you aren't in patient, just read the last sentence.

Talking about how Hela's family feel, the first mind of mine was like what general people have, they must be very angry, sad, and maybe detest the world. I tried a different view, asking myself what if they had all the right of their mother's cells?

They might burned them with their mother's body....or sold them to the hospital(could be a high possibility if the black had more rights during that period) since the cells were useless for them.
(Sorry, I just can not expect a poor family is able to do anything with the cells where they do not even know what those cells could do if no one told them. It is just too hard for them to deal with, especially during the mid of 1900s.)

In my opinion, these cells were been taking advantage whether by those medical organizations, or the first one plus their family. However, the fact is only the first one did it. How would the latter one feel? Angry, as most people had thought.....and maybe jealous too.

If someone ask me why I came up such a negative mind and full of radicalism that why the family have to have something like "jealous" of how those researchers are using their mother's cells. The answer is because I saw that daughter mentioned about money.

What does the money have to do in here??  Of course, those doctors used hela as a development source to invent or to improve our medicine, but they also spent their times, works, and perspiration to get the projects done.  If someone is out of medicine that complaining about these doctors' work, they must be jealous, or they are on the wrong target.

If I got the daughter's meaning wrong that she actually was complaining about those doctors never respect to her mother, then I have to say sorry, however, that is how our medicine been built.


Long and the short of it, I feel the family feels sad, bad, but could have feel some jealous to those who used their mother's cells.

1 comment:

  1. I know how you feel about fixing your friends computers, I used to do the same thing long time ago !

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