Anyone who has seen the original Star Trek TV series knows about Mr. Spock, the logical Vulcan. If we were all like him, the world might make better sense. Good reasoning and logical arguments would prevail. But, of course, we’re not Vulcans and even in situations where one would think logic should win the day, it often doesn’t. Like the rest of us, Ira Riklis has seen his fair share of such situations.
One he remembers well occurred when he went to donate blood, something he tries to do several times throughout each year. On this occasion, he found that the medical center had adopted new donation forms which Ira Riklis felt went a little overboard on the legal jargon and language he felt was needlessly invasive. When he questioned the receptionist about it, she rather curtly told him that if he didn’t fill in the paperwork, well… they just wouldn’t take his blood donation. Never mind that his donation would be helping to save someone’s life! Seeing that any attempt at logic would prove futile, he shrugged it off and went ahead and did what he knew was the right thing.