How often do you hear warnings about what you should and should not do? After looking at warning labels and signs on the day, we are desensitized to the warnings and they lose their meaning.
Hiking at the airport, we look up signs saying "Hold handrail while the escalator." In the ice rink, we see signs that say: "Slippery, use caution." On our medication bottles, we read "Warning-may cause damage if not taken as directed." On our laptop computers, mobile phones andDigital cameras, we see signs on the batteries, the "warning saying not dispose of in fire."
What are these warnings should I do? About the threats to the specific activity. Does it work? Maybe. Then again, maybe not. Remember the last time took care of such a warning. Have you read the fine print, if you received a prescription bottle, the whole package warning? Enter, if you're like most people go, then you have not.
Or how about going with this, "Warning, do not workheavy machinery if taking narcotic sedatives. "
Why are these warnings are necessary? Mainly because some people do not use their common sense, if their daily lives. Nearly every reference we see and hear, arises from an incident with someone who did not violate carefully.
"Do not drink the petrol, if you will suck gas from a tank to another."
Do we really need all these warnings? If the warning above really, notify us of the dangersassociated with drinking gasoline? Is not not drink, common sense to gasoline? I would like to think so, but some would disagree.
The other day there was a terrible tragedy involving an 8 year old boy from Queens, New York, played more easily with a barbeque at his home. You know what happened. He thought it was a toy and made little fire under his bed. Three of his brothers died together with his grandfather. All because he thought the lighter was a toy.
DoYou really think that a warning that said "Danger-Keep away from children," would this tragedy can be prevented? Unlikely. Or this warning: "Danger, do not touch an open flame, you can burn."
Unfortunately, there is no substitute for warnings, common sense. It goes without saying that nothing replaces constant vigilance of your children. Veteran New York personal injury lawyer Gerry Oginski recently noticed a sign outside a hotel, said, "there is no substitute for parentalSupervision. "
"The warnings that we see every day, have little meaning if we are inundated with them from all sides. We are desensitized to the dangers and warnings in our daily lives," says Gerry Oginski. Read our children and our own actions helps to minimize the dangers that we face in our lives every day. So be careful this holiday season.
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