“La seguridad está en la gente, o no está en ninguna parte”.
No reconocer esta realidad en aras de una sobreprotección externa (mecánica, psicológica o normativa) hace un flaco favor a la madurez y responsabilidad individual de las personas, elemento sustancial de una convivencia en libertad. Y esto es válido para la seguridad vial, las finanzas, la educación, la sanidad y el resto de los ámbitos vitales.
En definitiva, como con casi todas las políticas que he llevado a cabo el partido popular durante su mandato, la reforma tributaria de Montoro ha ido acompañada de medias verdades y medias mentiras por parte de los que la defienden y por parte de los que la atacan. Nada nuevo bajo el sol.
The development goals of least value, according to the Copenhagen process, include the self-contradictory call for higher agricultural productivity with less environmental impact. Other bad investments are less obvious but would actually hurt the poor. For example, equal access to affordable tertiary education may sound good in principle, but in many developing countries, it amounts to a policy of having the mass of poor people pay for the college education of the rich. Other goals—such as "sustainable tourism"—are simply too narrow and ill-defined to merit consideration on a list of urgent priorities.
La educación debe enseñar a pensar con rigor, a analizar ese contexto y encontrar la respuesta más idónea, no la más ocurrente. Y que sea capaz de hacerlo de forma interactiva, de modo que el individuo pueda aprender de sus propios fallos, que sea un crítico imparcial de sí mismo.
Finally, a note about heroic doctors and nurses who have died of Ebola. Dead doctors help no patients. Medecins Sans Frontiers has not lost any doctors. There is absolutely no point sending doctors or nurses to work in circumstances where they are exhausted, under-staffed, and under-resourced. There is no point in extremely altruistic medical volunteers going to work in settings where they will eventually fail to follow barrier protocols and become ill themselves. They are not helping, particularly when they have to be specially air lifted back to the West to be treated. Catching something you don’t have to catch if you take basic precautions is not heroic. It is not intelligent either.
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