Comments about ‘Letter: Boxing Day: Sanity cannot be boxed and given away’

Many round the world spend boxing day shopping. It's the time for the post christmas sales.

No, sanity is becoming more and more scarce every day it seems. But wouldn't it be nice if we could find a way . . . .

In England and Canada, on December 26, some citizens placed Christmas gifts in boxes and distributed them to friends and family. A substantially larger group of citizens made Boxing Day another big shopping day. But this is a very diverse world. In Texas, Cody Wilson and his colleagues continued to perfect the three-dimensional printing production of key parts for an AR-15 rifle. In Chad, Hakki Hassan and his colleagues continued to treat malnourished children using a three-dimensional screwdriver to remove teeth and uvulas. This diverse world has high and low tech solutions to very different problems. Cody's printer is a future solution to “...protecting the right to bear arms by giving everyone access to guns...”. Hakki's screwdriver is a present day solution to treating malnourished children.

Any day can be a gift giving day. But, sanity cannot be placed in a box and successfully given to Cody or Hakki.

See DN articles in the hard-copy edition for 26 Dec. 2012.
“Click, print, shoot: Downloadable weapons cause anxiety for gun foes”. Page A8.
“Traditions in Chad harm, kill malnourished children”. Page A12

"Cody's printer is a future solution to “...protecting the right to bear arms by giving everyone access to guns...”. Hakki's screwdriver is a present day solution to treating malnourished children." "... high and low tech solutions to very different problems."