As an economics student at University of Virginia, I ran across a theory in   
   economics that stated that, when an economic pattern is discerned, it ceases   
   to exist. The reason for this is that people cash in on the pattern, and the   
   act of them cashing in    
   on the pattern leads to the pattern disappearing.   
      
   This leads us to quantum mechanics, which states that observing a phenomenon   
   can change it. The reason for this is not a difficult one to understand. In   
   order to measure the position and speed of an electron, one needs to send a   
   photon at it; and the    
   photon bumps the electron off its orbit and changes its direction and its   
   speed. It occurs to me that this is not limited to the study of electrons.   
      
   There have been a number of situations in history in which people changed   
   things when they were thinking that they were only observing them. When white   
   man came to America and Australia, he brought with himself all sorts of   
   pathogens that destroyed the    
   original population. Many of the people who were guilty of this did not have   
   any harmful intentions. They wanted to explore; but they brought with   
   themselves something that vastly changed what they were observing.   
      
   In human interactions therefore, it is necessary to know what you are yourself   
   changing. What do you bring to the table? What are your pathogens, your   
   prejudices, your beliefs? How are you affecting reality, consciously or   
   unconsciously?   
      
   The more this is done, the more informed are the choices and the greater the   
   chances of these choices being right and impacting the world rightfully rather   
   than wrongly.   
       
   While relativity reduces one's responsibility by claiming  that all things are   
   relative, quantum mechanics demands greater responsibility. If you can change   
   things through your actions without intending to change them, then you better   
   be acting    
   rightfully. If, as some think, you can change things just by thinking about   
   them, then you better have rightful thoughts. It is therefore essential to   
   know what you are doing and how you are going about doing it. And this is the   
   case regardless of the    
   character of your intentions.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)