"Students, Master! They even do not trouble to switch-off their screens when finished with them. So you can see one or two of them in a large room with 15 or 20 X-ray stoves all in action. Don't they know that these terminals, like all tv. screens produce X-rays?"
"Probably not, even when students of physics. Do not expect grown-up sanity and reason in students. They are just kids. Physicists, medics, psychologists, they all know for instance that high-level noise, 103 dB, damage hearing for life, yet, students in these faculties freely expose themselves to it in the so-called disco's. I heard an old professor of medicine say that his hearing, despite his 70 years of age, was still superior to that of most of his students, especially in the high frequencies, the slight hissings in the stethoscope. Kids from the so-called civilised world, would hesitate to cut off a finger or hand. It is too bloody. But for all other auto-mutilations it is 'anything goes'. They freely inject, sniff or smoke the most damaging poisons (and don't tell me they are not aware of it), they cut holes in earlobes or noses, they destroy skin-cells by the thousands in tattooing, so why not destroy hearing or go and sit in a room full of superfluous X-ray generators? All in all, I think that they are fully entitled to extinguish themselves, I even advocate it so as to leave more room for the sane, clever, exceptions. What has not life, what wants not life, what destroys life, just let it go."