Catching up on that afore mentioned reading of blogs, the dauntless LegIron has commented on Bin rage which is currently a minor grumble of mine with currently no obvious solution. Where I live my non-recyling is taken away fortnightly which is usually fine I don’t normally have more than a shopping back of rubbish a week to throw out, so I have a small wheely bin, all well and good. Except every now and then I have a sort out, such as when my housemate/lodger moves out and suddenly my bin is full to over flowing. Now back in the day this wasn’t a problem you just filled a few more council bin bags and put them out for collection, but no the sticker on my bin says no “side waste” and the lid must close. There’s a recycling depot just 10 minutes away which is no use as none of this is recycling material, I don’t drive so the dump’s not an option. So either I pay the council about 35 quid to turn up with a garden clearance van for a few bags of rubbish, or I get to store my trash for a number of weeks or months filling up my bin each fortnight once the more fly friendly trash is in there … or I could investigate fly tipping and then report that to the council get them to take it away for free and maybe if I’m lucky get a reward or something. I know which option is more appealing.
Now onto the question, the news which I accidentally watched has alerted me to the fact that there have been terrible floods in Pakistan and that this humanitarian disaster requires the west to dig deep into it’s pockets and give large amounts of aid from money it doesn’t have. All very normal but what I’m wondering about is the pakistani officials/spokes people and the like talking about “avoidable loss of life”.
Pakistan is officially the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”, and last I checked Islam believes in predestination, when it’s your time to go it’s your time to go and no matter what you do you can’t avoid it. Therefore surely none of that lose of life is avoidable and it’s an affront to Allah for us to try to prevent these people from dying? I suppose the argument is that we should give succour to the living who aren’t on the days list to die to make them more comfortable, all well and good – but “avoidable loss of life”?
