The Only Right Answer Is Wrong

 There are many people in this world that believe that their way is the only way that is right and no other way can work. There could be many reasons for this. People have it in their nature to want to be right, I know I don't like being wrong. Perhaps some people want so badly to always be right, or not to admit when they are wrong, that they force the issue, create evidence, or maybe misinterpret the evidence, or anything else they can do to convince others to go along with their solution. Another reason that people may think that there is only one solution may be because we were all taught this our whole lives through the use of standardized tests that we were given in order to measure the knowledge that we learned while in the class room. Maybe the desire to control a situation or even the masses is the reason that people have the need to be right, for instance who controls what the answers to these standardized tests are.

There is a major controversy in the news today that everyone has an opinion about in one way or another, that is the oil catastrophe in the gulf. Now that there has been so much damage to the environment everyone agrees that something has to be done. But what is to be done? There are many who believe that there is only one right answer, and that is to completely shut down drilling and find other resources. Perhaps we do need to find other resources for our power needs, there is definitely damage occurring to the environment even when there is not an accident of some kind. However we have been searching for other forms of energy for years and have not come up with anything that will accommodate the power needs of today's society. Therefore how is it a solution to shut down the primary source of energy that we rely on to power our entire way of life. It would force us to rely on importing our fuel and the jobs that would be lost would be countless. The other forms of energy should still be sought out, but until and alternative is found we can't abandon the energy that we have.

There are an infinite number of solutions that could work in order to ensure that this disaster off our coasts does not happen again. Of all the technological marvels that we have in our society there must be someone out there that can create one to contain a spill if something like this happens, or perhaps stricter laws placed on safety procedures ( I'm sure this one is already being implemented). It is impossible for there to be only one solution to this issue because everyone has a different point of view and they are all conflicting. A compromise of some kind is going to have to occur in order to please everyone.