Monday, April 03, 2006

Here's something new! cellphones might call cancer!

Recent research has once again brought up the ever flipflopping vote on whether cell phone use causes cancer.
This brings up a very important point.

Let's take a hypothetical situation:

We now learn that cell phone use definitely causes cancer:

Would you stop using cell phones, now that they have become such an integral part of your life? Can you imagine going back to those days where you're waiting by the door like a heroine in a very bad hindi movie from the 70's wondering why your loved one is two hours late?

If you have been using cell phones for a while now and you just found out that your past years of heavy cell phone usage has given you cancer, who would take responsibility for what has happened to you?

New technology, like new drugs find a way to bone people in ways manufacturers could not even dream of. Examples: Coca Cola contained proper cocaine till 1929. Cigarettes weren't found to be bad for health till the recent past.

If you do decide to continue using cellphones, would you be any different from people who smoke? If you do smoke and use the cellphone, would you blame the cigarette companies or the cell phone manufacturers first?

P.S. this situation is leaving out all the other possibilities of finding a better/safer way of near instant communication in the following years, which should be on the way soon anyways.

3 comments:

Beast said...

ooooh maybe a national ban!!

a global ban even :-O

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo im lost thinking abt it bro....

rahul said...

haha aren't we all

magicfarawaytree said...

wow! interesting analogy!!