My wife had surgery yesterday to remove an organ she apparently doesn't need anymore. It's not just her that doesn't need it - I'm told that if you live in "the West" our food is such that the digestive function of the organ is more or less obsolete. Since she had some problems with it, the surgeon said she was better off without it, since she had nothing to gain but trouble by keeping it.

I've been thinking recently about things in life that may be "permissable but not beneficial." Sometimes things would be simpler if everything were spelled out for us in neat, easy-to-read prose. But we know that's not real life. There's a character in the movie "Jurassic Park" who, when speaking to the "mastermind" behind the genetially-engineered dinosaurs says something like, "You spent all this time trying to see if you could (engineer the dinos) that you never stopped to think if you should." Seems like a wise thought to me. If one's got nothing to gain but trouble by a behavior/action/habit, it's probably better to get rid of it.