Corruption in Figure Skating Judging
I seems counterintuitive that the number of corrupt judges increased in the Winter Figure Skating Olympics after the International Skating Union prevent cheating by making the judges scores anonymous. Judges were giving higher score to skaters from the same country as them. This was bad for the Olympics. The International Skating Union figured if they kept the judges anonymous they wouldn’t cheat. Their plan didn’t work as they thought. The number of corrupt judges went up 20%. Judges began cheating more because they didn’t have the pressure of people knowing what score they gave a certain athlete. This is counterintuitive because the plan they thought was the solution actually increased the problem.
End-of-Life Care
It seems counterintuitive that end of life care help hopeless patients live while hurting hopeful patients by exhausting resources and money. End of life care is the financial care used for people that are not likely to live long without treatment. Families find it hard to let go of their loved ones that are dying so they tend to prolong the treatment. While the treatments are being prolonged money and resources are being used up. Some doctors are at fault for exhausting these resources as well. Sometimes doctors recommend many treatments that only prolong the suffering while keeping the patient alive. This is helping the helpless patients but not the patient that can actually benefit from the treatment. Between the families and the doctors many resources are being wasted.
Free Heroin to Battle Addiction
It seems counterintuitive that doctors in Vancouver are providing heroin to heroin addicts to ‘help’ them. Heroin is a drug that kill many people everyday. Doctors are suppose to help us stay healthy. Their reason for giving out heroin is because they rather give addicts heroin before they commit a crime to get the money for the heroin. If a addict is high off the heroin they provided commits a crime did the doctor actually help? They provide the heroin like it is a regular drug prescribed at the doctors. Doctors should find a way to get them completely off the drug instead of giving it out for free. Giving the drug for free is simply killing the addict with the help of a doctor. At the end doctors are not helping at all. They don’t seem to be worried about the health of the addicts they just want the crime rate to drop.
Rowan Counterintuitive 