Heart group: Require students to get CPR training
11th January 2011
I have a question: Why does every do-gooder group on the planet feel entitled to ‘require’ students to do this, that, and the other? Certainly everybody (not just students) ought to be familiar with CPR, but is forcing them to learn it really going to get the job done? Quite frankly, my reaction to being forced to ‘learn’ something is to ignore in during class and forget it as soon as I’m free; and I can’t believe I’m the only person who reacts that way. If anyone is looking for the roots of the totalitarian impulse, here it is red in tooth and claw. The road to Hell may or may not be paved with good intentions, but the road to the Third Reich certainly is.
January 11th, 2011 at 12:03
Worse than that, if you are certified and for whatever reason you don’t help save someone or if you try but fail (as a student might very well do), then you can be sued by the victim or the victims family. Are there really lawyers sleazy enough to do that?
Oh, c’mon, we all know the answer to that.