Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

     It is an extremely hard thing to choose who is to blame in a situation where you can see why both the individuals deserve to be blamed. For example, in a tattooing show that I recently watched, called "Best Ink," there was a mistake on the tattoo that would forever be a part of the skin, or client. The client wanted a scripture from the book of Philippians across their ankle. The tattooer was not religious, nor had she ever been to church or picked up a Bible. The artist asked the client 5 times to spell the word Philippians for her and even asked her to write it down. After the client assured her that she was one hundred percent positive on the spelling the artist proceeded with the tattoo. The artist was then confronted by another competitor  and was told that she spelled "Phillipians." This could be the artist's fault because she did not care to look up the spelling on the internet to be sure that her skin was correct; however the fault could fall on the skin for not knowing the spelling of the word and assuring the tattooer it was correct when it was not. Who do you think is at fault here? When things like this happen to me, I try to take some, if not full, responsibility. I am not sure why I do things like that but I feel that if I do something wrong I should own up to it and accept the consequences. This is what I feel everyone should do, but this world is far from perfect and there are more people that are not as honest as others. I hope to see society change someday.

A Great Perhaps

     Ever since humans have been on earth, curiosity has followed. I believe that people have let curiosity get the best of them for many reasons. One of these reasons is that people fear the unknown so when they discover more of the unknown there is less fear. Fame and fortune plays a big part in exploration as well. Discovering a new plant or species could potentially bring about new and improved cures. These cures would definitely bring fame and fortune, therefore people around the world are eager to observe the undiscovered parts of the world. Finally, I suppose that people want to believe there is more to life than what they are experiencing or have experienced. The last words of french poet Francois Rabelais were, "I go to seek a great perhaps."  I suspect that this is another reasons that explorers do what they do. They want to leave this planet knowing that they found their "great perhaps."
     People have searched across the globe on dangerous adventures for centuries. There have been expeditions across rainforests, tundras, desserts, and many more places. There have been many cases in which an adventurer leaves in hopes to discover something amazing and does not return. These cases, although tragic, have played a large part in the discoveries and technological and agricultural advances that we have today. If these people had not tried to explore the unknown, no one would have been able to plan a successful expedition based on their gatherings and new explorers would know what was dangerous when they do search the new land.
     Even though there is a possibility of the fame or self satisfaction mentioned earlier, there are many negative affects of searching unknown places. Explorers have to be willing to sacrifice their life go on these expeditions. One's body has not adapted to or prepared for anything that this new place contains so there is a great chance of death. Death does not only affect the person on the expedition because that person's family will be affected greatly as well. Another thing that adventurers have to sacrifice is luxury. Some people take their possessions for granted and do not realize that when they go on an adventure they will not have amazing food to eat or a nice bed to sleep in. Finally, they might sacrifice their reputation. If a scientist happens to discover a new plant and brings the native plant back to wherever he came from, there is a chance that the plant could kill another species in the area and disrupt the entire food web.