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Why is it important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare?
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Amanda
To take care of your self to prevent to you to become sick helps others by you not helping the spread of a sickness. Every where around us there are sickness going around and its all because we don't wash our hands when we sneeze and before we eat most of us don't wash our hands too. These actions can transfer various diseases. Say a person is going for an interview. Bob sits in a room waiting, clears his throat by coughing. The interviewer walks in, hold out his hand to shake. Bob shakes it. Right now bacteria are getting transfer from one person to another. Bob gets the job and he goes tells his family and friends they hug and jump around in joy now also bacteria is getting transferred form the hugs, and it STILL KEEPS on GETTING TRANSFERD! This is why we need to wash our hands or just cough in to your arm, elbow.



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I like Vrishti's idea. Everyone NEEDS to be clean!!! Lets say that your sick, but you aren't sick enough to get out of school. So you go. Everywhere you walk you sneeze into your bare hands and you dont wash them. Then in Humanities you are doing a project so you touch all the markers and the gulesticks and the scissors, all the while having a huge sneezing fit into your hands, the ones you handle the materials with. In your head your thinking "I don't need to cough/sneeze into my shoulder!! I'm just saving myself time that would be otherwise wasted!!" But in real, thats not true. Every person that has touched you or touched anything that you touched/sneezed/coughed on has a very big chance of getting the same sickness that you have. Maybe their immune system isn't as strong as yours so they get even sicker than you. OK back to the story. Then you just go on the day, spreading germs unknowingly around the school. When you get home, you drink a couple glasses of warm water, take a hot bath and go to bed. The next day after you go to the bathroom, you are cured, the germs having left your body. You feel GREAT, not even remember, or knowing, that you spread the germs all around the school. So you get there and for some reason, 5 kids from your core classes are missing... "Hmmmm..... Thats odd... OH!!! They are sick," you think. What you cease to remember is that the same people that were too sick to come to school were the same people that touched the EXACT same things that you used for your Humanities project yesterday. Thats why its very important to balance your personally and society's long term welfare. So you save yourself an extra 2 seconds to cough into your hand instead your shoulder. But, you make 5 other people in the class become sick as well. Next time your about to sneeze or cough, remember to do that into your shoulder, lessoning the chance of you spreading germs, as you don't hold stuff or shake peoples hands with your shoulder.

I chose this picture because it shows that people can easily transmit sicknesses to other people.



Vrishti:
If you go to school, office, or any place where you’ll meet a lot of people, it’s actually very important that you keep yourself clean. But maybe you’ll ask yourself this question: “Why am I the only one who should be clean?” Well, the truth is… EVERYONE should try to keep themselves clean. If you were the only person who was hygienic, it wouldn’t make much difference than groups of people being hygienic. Of course you’re in a circle of people somehow…like your family for example. If you keep yourself hygienic and clean at home, you wouldn’t spread much of your viruses and bacteria to you family members. Your dad goes to work and spreads the disease you’ve spread to some people ion his office. Not good. It’s not your family that you should **only** think about. You should also think about how you sit around with friends during lunch. During your school day do you hug friends? Share pencils? Give hi-fives? If you were a clean person, you won’t spread your germs to your friends…trust me, you don’t want your friend to become sick. Washing you hands with soap and water can prevent spread of disease. If you have a good habit of doing this, it’s less likely that you’ll infect other people that you physically contact. But… if EVERYONE had a good habit of washing their hand, it’s less likely that a disease will occur! So keep this in mind: If you keep yourself clean, you’ll help your society by not spreading your disease, but if everyone keeps themselves clean, they can help their society, country, or even the world by not spreading their own disease. Sometimes, one person can make small changes. =] Comments Herbert: That’s a pretty good example on how disease can be spread.

Covering your mouth and nose when you sneeze is a way to prevent the disease that you’ve sneezed out to others around you.

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Cassandra:
Why it is important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society's long term welfare's are because you could spread a disease around the world, making a huge impact. For instance, if you decide to not wash your hands at home because you think that your family already has your germs anyways then you would be infecting them. Along with the objects you touch, your family could go out for dinner or something and then they would spread it. Infecting others with the germs and maybe causing them to get a disease, and then if the person with the disease doesn't wash their hands they can infect others, etc. So if you don't do one simple thing that helps to prevent germs and diseases from spreading then you can be infecting the whole world with your germs.

-If you just simply wash your hands with water and soap, (like the picture shows), after you use the bathroom, when you come in from outside or when you sneeze on them you can prevent the spread of germs, and diseases. If you don't because you won't take the simple five minutes to do so you can be spreading germs or diseases, that could end up impacting the world for a long time. It could cause a huge economic impact and could kill many people.

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Comment: Good one Herbert, that is very original talking about pink eye, I doubt anyone else thought of that. =Herbert=

It is important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society's welfare. You could easily spread a disease or a cold around the world. All it takes is one person to infect the whole world. Here is an example; there is a little boy with pink eye. Then one day he goes into the elevator, scratches his eye and presses the button that says lobby on it. Then when any one else in the hotel presses that button and scratches their eyes, they too will have pink eye. And one of those people is a business man. And say he meets with his client and shake hands with him. Then he will get this "sickness" and so and so on and so on. So simple way to prevent a disease like Pink eye is to wash your hands before scratching your eyes.Basically Wash your hands in general.

http://yalenewhavenhealth.org/emergency/influenza/images/WashHands2.jpg Comment: Cassie I think yours is informational and is short and simple. good job Daniel: yours is also informal and short, but i like your example it think its cool.

Byron
You should balance personal benefit to the whole societies. If you put your own benefits over the worlds, sure, you might save a few seconds or so, but that might be unpleasant for another unlucky being to find your mess. You could go out to dinner with your family, and go to the bathroom, but not flush the toilet. Now that’s your choice, and okay, it saves a few seconds, but what about the next unlucky person to come in and find that this toilet is full of your droppings? It would be unpleasant for them, and it would be unpleasant to yourself if you found something like this. We need to keep our bodies healthy, along with making sure that no one else is in danger. This is why you balancing personal benefits with a society’s are needed.


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[] I chose this picture because this would be somewhat similar to a persons face if they found your unpleasant droppings left in the toilet.

Keeping personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare is important and not hard. For example, if you go to an unclean bathroom, before you sit on the toilet, simply wiping the toilet, and leaving tissues on the toilet can prevent many germs from getting onto you. In that case, when you sit on another toilet, you wouldn’t leave germs on it. So the next person who uses the toilet can be safe and clean. After you finish using the bathroom, washing hands with soap can prevent the spread of viruses, bacteria, and germs. It is not only for your benefit, because then the next person you touch will not have the microorganism passed by you. yes, Byron it only takes a few seconds to flush, and if its me, i wouldn't be happy to find someone's droppings! I choose this picture because one of my topics is about using a toilet.

=Harschal= I think it is important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare because what you started may end up with you again too! For example you're a basketball player at a basketball game. At half-time you really need to go to the bathroom. You unexpectedly stay in the bathroom for 18 minutes, and your half-time is only 20 minutes. The unfortunate part is that you're a starter which means you HAVE to be there to start in 2 minutes. You know your hands have icky things like bacteria and germs but you choose not to take the 30 seconds to wash them with soap. The game starts again, and you happen to get a rebound, with that rebound you pass it to you teammate who also most likely has the germs which will make him sick. the game goes on and on and now every player has the disease and it will keep spreading. If he had taken 30 seconds to wash his hands with soap none of this would have happened.

Comments: Thats a good point Yi Ying, It only takes 10 seconds to wipe your toilet seat, and that is very important to make sure you don’t get sick!

Picture Source: [|__http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/NEW/GermCity/images/handwash.png__] I chose this picture because it shows someone throughly washing their hands with soap. Back To Top =Karen= I think it's really important to balance these two because just because you don't feel like doing something, it can affect everyone else around you as well. For instance, taking antibiotics. If you take antibiotics, even if you don't need them at all, because you think they will keep you healthy, this can lead to a lot of people being affected, since that type of bacteria may become resistant to the antibiotic, and when really sick people use it, it won't help them recover because the "bad" bacteria has become stronger. This causes scientists to have to create a new type of antibiotics. Also, if you need antibiotics but you don't finish them, the "bad" bacteria can grow resistant to the medicine, and it may not work for anyone anymore. You should always finish your antibiotics, and you shouldn't take them when you don't need to at all. Even if you are sick, everyone should remember that antibiotics aren't always the best possible way to recover, and instead of using them, you can always get some bed rest and drink lots of water. Then this antibiotics-not-working thing won't happen! =D Well it might, but if you don't do the two things I said above, it won't happen as quickly. XD

I chose these two pictures because the one on the left shows that you should be careful to take antibiotics only when you need them, and not when you have a cold. The one next to it says you don't always need antibiotics. There's always another way to get better.

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I just read Harschal's response, and I have to say that I agree with it. But the spread of disease can also happen if you shake hands at the end of the game, or if you high five one of your teamates.

=Daniel= You should balance short term benefits with society long term benefits well, cause if you don't, you might end up causing a lot of deaths. For example, if you don't want to take te antibiotics becuase they taste crappy then you would be happy for yourself. But then the bacteria that the last dose of antibiotics were supposed to kill will mulyiply, and now you have a whole bunch of antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body. Then you spread it to others, and after a while everybody gets the disease and they cant cure it with anything. Sooo if you did wash your hands and finish taking all the drugs that they give you then you could actually help the society maybe even the world.

[|http://www.motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf45/Images/R=2(4).jpg] =Teddy= Daniel is quite right about causing a lot of deaths if you simply don't care about stopping the spread of disease. Think about killing people!

If everybody thought, hey, it's really annoying to cover my mouth when I cough, but I heard it stops the spread of disease. Oh well, I'm not a hero, I won't bother myself for some greater good. Then they should know, by slacking off and not wash their hands, not cover their mouths when they cough and sneeze, they first people they're going to be harming would be their family, friends, and those who are close to them. If you think, why should I be the only one that's all careful? Then you should tell yourself, I'm not the only one, everyone does this. It's all about what people thinks, what you do may not be a whole lot, but if everybody helps a little, the world ends up having a lot less people killed by diseases.

I chose this picture to remind you: Cover your mouth! Or else your mom, dad, friends, would soon be coughing the heck like you are.

Julie
I agree with Teddy that when you cough you should cover your mouth, especially at school! You wouldn't want every in your class to get sick because of you, right?

When your doctor gives you a bottle of anti-biotic and tells you to take it for seven days. However for some kind of reason you decided that you are feeling well enough to not take it anymore then after a while you might get sick again. When you try the same anti-biotic, it doesn't work anymore. That is because the left over bacteria in your body is becoming bacteria resistance. The "super bacteria" that is in your body just might be the next SARS that will cause harm to everyone in the world. You might think that it is impossible, but think about it. If you pass the bacteria to people in your house, and they pass it on to more people in the area. Sooner or later, your whole community will have the bacteria all because of you. Maybe people can die, hospitals get full and doctors and nurses and infected also. So taking the right amount of medicine that your doctor gives you is a little step of a healthier world.



http://www.orbitpharma.net/full-images/686508.jpg I choose this picture because it is a picture of anti-biotic.

=Tiffany Chen =  Why is it important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare?

~ It is important to balance personal, short-term benefits because you should help yourself. Instead of just taking a good 40 seconds to wash your hands thoroughly with soap, you think: “Nah, why wash it. What’s the worse thing that could happen?” Well, I’ll tell you the worse thing that could happen. The bacteria you hold on your dirty palms might be a new type of deadly disease that might wipe out regions around the world. Taking these little steps will help you improve your life, and most of them just take not even a minute. Some people out there don’t realize that by skipping these tiny little steps in life, they are letting the spread of bacteria increase. You never know if those bacteria might grow to wipe out continents. It is important to help the society because well, where else can you live? If bacterium spread around because people don’t bother to clean up after themselves, or even bother to prevent bacteria spreading, then you won’t really have a civilization to live in. Everybody would be infected. How can you live a life like that? You probably can’t. You might even be dead. [ http://oni-grapher.deviantart.com/art/Employees-Must-Wash-113530946 ] I chose this picture because it shows that some people out there do want people to have a change. Some smarter people out there actually will take the time to wash their hands when they see this sign! Help the world. :) For Julie's Comment: Yes! That's correct. I agree that you should finish the course of which you should take the antibiotics. ---

=Galahad= People should wash their body every time because germs on you just don't fall off you when you shake. The have to be wash with some kind of special soap that washes them off. If you don't wash you body and sometime in the day you shake a persons hand or you are doing a activities then the germs on your body is person to person contact then it would spread on even more if he doesn't wash too. You might save a little of time but think of the other side. You are spreading some germs that the world have never seem before and you just spread it around the world. i choose this picture is to take a bath every day.  www.johnmh.com