I am a huge fan of laziness. If you think about it, all of our modern convienences were invented by someone who was too lazy to do something. Someone was too lazy to wash dishes so they invented a dishwasher. Someone was too lazy to walk so they invented the automobile. Computer programmers are no exception. They would spend an hour writing a program that relieves them of 30 minutes of data entry. But at what point have we gone too far? The escalator was invented to make the process of climbing stairs easier. By making the stairs rise upward, the total number of stairs a person has to climb was greatly reduced. The escalator was not meant to remove the task of walking up stairs completely. When you take that first step you’re not getting on some kind of kiddy ride for your amusement. The people that just stand there have become too lazy. However, there is an even greater evil, the people who stand on the moving walkways at the airport. These people are the constipation of the public transportation system. Where are we headed as a society? Are we all going to start scooting around on motorized wheelchairs because we are too lazy or too overweight to move under our own power. The time has come for us to draw the line between innovation and retardation, and rightfully so.