So apparently the co-op in our area is doing some bike ride from Berea to Cedar Point in two days which is like a billion miles and she is trying to raise money. The title of her e-mail was "Support MS." I told her that i don't support diseases, but i do support the fight against diseases though. So, if she wanted to raise money to find a cure for MS, i might donate to that. But I wouldn't want to just support MS. It's ruined enough people's lives, and i don't feel like helping it along any further.
then i got to wondering if Multiple Sclerosis is grammatically correct. Wouldn't it be Multiple Scleroses (with an "e" not an "i") ? If a sclerosis is a patch of hardened tissue in the brain or spinal cord, then if you have multiple of them, you would have scleroses (i'm assuming the plural form is akin to parenthesis/parentheses) So either you would have SS (singular sclerosis) or MS (multiple scleroses). I'm assuming most people have MS, although having SS would probably suck too, and given the choice of the two, i think i would lean more towards SS. This newfound realization of improper grammar only made me not want to support MS even more. What a dumb disease.
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Do you think people who suffer from singular sclerosis have a tough time fishing for sympathy because people hear it and say, "Well, it could be a lot worse."
this reminds me of an email i got from Sonya recently entitled: "Join me in the fight against HIV/AIDS". it was for some walk, and there was a website i could go to to see how much money she earned to date, her fund raising goal, etc. her goal was only $75, so i sent her this in an email: "your low fund raising goal does not provide me with much confidence in your motivation to finish the walk..."
she never responded so i never donated any money! i just wanted to be POSITIVE that she could indeed finish the walk without the help of AIDS.
Doesn't keeping people with MS alive just lead to more people getting MS? If we let them all die and didn't research it, then they wouldn't reproduce and the genes would disappear from the gene pool. In a common sense way, you fight MS by not helping, because then you increase peoples' chances of dying.
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