According to "Sorry mom: Getting lots of tattoos could have a surprising health benefit" from The Huffington Post, The persons who have got tattooing more than one time would increase the immune markers more than those with only one time tattooing. Even though this study don't support tattooing especially people who have never done tattooing before because of certain risks, for example infection or scarring, It can be useful for developing the new approach of vaccine delivery which reproducw the tattoo method like piercing through many spots on the skin and left small portion of ink.
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My Yes/No question is:
Do you think many forbidden things in modern culture like tattoo or marijuana will be more important for developing technology in the near future?
My answer is:
Yes, I think so. There must be some certain for our heritage from far history not just the popularity among lower class people to pass on those things in their way of life. The article also said that tattoo may be used as sign for differentiating "attractive" people who have better physical response than the others who would be judged as "less-healthy peers".
Our modern world never get tired of judging something to be good or bad, appropriate or hazardous and sometimes based on prejudice especially on racism and social classes. I think now is a good time to revise many thing based on objective data and not to be credulous or ignorant, because we can have more evidences for evaluating than in the past time.
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No, I don't think so. These forbidden things might be important to people in the past but not in today world. Majority, including me, view these things as unnecessary things as we can live peacefully and comfortably without them. Taking marijuana also affects our health and having tattoo may also cause pain and infections. This does not really lead to new invention or technology as drugs in laboratory nowadays have better effects than marijuana and also having tattoo is only seemed as a fashion to some groups of people.
ReplyDeleteYou quite have a reasonable idea for what we have now is enough for better living but I don't think they can be accessible for everybody. New drugs which have been invented from pharmaceutical companies is barely affordable for middle class people who live in developing country, especially in Thailand which have many laws tended to protect the private enterprise rather than patient's accessibility. For example, marijuana is very good drug for patients with HIV who have low appetite and get depressed as morbidity from it. Furthermore, you can plant on your rooftop anywhere in the tropical and don't need to pay for it or go to any pharmacy. And actually marijuana is better for health than sugar or fast food, it doesn't have weight gain effect even you get more appetite.
DeleteYou might be right. Our lives' facilities nowadays is so convenient but sorry they might be not reached from everybody in the society. This article might not persuade you to think that this study would lead a new way to developing new medical technology, although I hope our moral paradigm should be exercised by many new facts and objective data.
Yes, I think these will be important for developing technology. From my thought, everything is two side good and bad, it depends on user. In the past, tattoo and marijuana are allowed in social, Tattoo represents the social culture and marijuana is used for treatment. I think they would be a constitutional knowledge for new technology in the future.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you tattoo and marijuana can cause many bad effects, too. Anyway, there should be some purpose which may be beneficial for our further study in the future in order to find our consensus and lead to new findings.
DeleteSome day in near future, we would found new ways for vaccine injections which hurt less and deliver many formulations at one time. Who knows?
But tattoos surely have beneficial effects. Only this afternoon I saw a photo-essay in the Bangkok Post on tattoos in the Thai version of Buddhism - there seemed to be lots of social and personal benefits there ("Magic Tattoo Festival," 2016).
ReplyDeleteAnd marijuana, just like heroin and the even worse drug alcohol, surely also have beneficial effects: why else would such things be so very popular with so many people, most of whom are not addicts and who cause no problems to others through their use of such drugs?
I agree with you, but the use of some of those forbidden things might not be useful. For example, the tattoos which is done by using ink presents me nothing that could be connected to technology unless it can be merged with chips or electronic codes to be scanned. Furthermore, I couldn't notice any use of Marijuana for developing technology, but only for medication. However, for other forbidden things, they could be of a lot of help and might even change the face of future technology.
ReplyDeleteIn general, it might be possible for developing technology in either short or long-term future, depending on several main factors.
ReplyDelete1. Social value and trend: How do people perceive and consider? Is it widely acceptable in society?
2. Medical benefits and/or health promotion: How effective and useful are they? Is it only alternative medicine?
3. Religion: Is it contrary to the existing religious principles?
4. Laws: Is it in flavor of the current laws?
5. Business/Economic: Is it worth investing? Who can be target market?
Other possible factors and related questions might be added.
Your comment give this blog become more informative and business aspect. Thanks for sharing, Feem. Your idea is an objective assessment that can be adapted for every kind of technology.
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