Scientists and OSHA officials have come up with wonderful charts that explain the toxicity of a number of chemicals. If you're interested, here is the link.
http://www.chemdaq.com/gases.html
The tool that they use his parts per million, or PPM. Reading through the published accounts of their work, they have identified the exact point where too much, is just too much.
Assume PPM was applied to other aspects of our lives. 1,000,000 minutes is about 700 days, roughly 2 years. Applying this standard for noxious materials to destructive human behaviors, provides insight to the quality of lives and relationships.
Whining and complaining matches up with carbon dioxide. It is something we do, we're not proud of it, but it happens. High concentrations of carbon dioxide can lead to can affect respiratory function and cause excitation followed by depression of the central nervous system and concentrations, greater than 10% result in difficulty breathing, impaired hearing, nausea, vomiting, a strangling sensation, sweating, stupor within several minutes and loss of consciousness. 5,000 parts per million is the health standard. Converting parts per million to minutes, this behavior begins to destroy a relationship, after about 3 1/2 days of exposure every two years.
Smug and arrogant behavior is on par with carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide binds the hemoglobing of the blood, resulting in flu like symptoms, including headache, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, lethargy and a feeling of weakness. Higher concentrations result in neurological signs include confusion, disorientation, visual disturbance, syncope and seizures and death. Smug and arrogant behavior makes people want to punch you in the throat. So both are bad. OSHA believes 50 ppm is the standard at which things get ugly. That means over a two-year period you could exhibit this behavior for less than an hour and not be toxic to anyone in your life.
Disrespect, failing to listen and generally acting in an unloving way, also known as, being a man… Is on par with formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is an irritant to the eyes, mucous membranes and respiratory system, and it is also a sensitizer causing an allergic response. In addition to being featured as a lyric in a Ramone's song, formaldehyde gets ugly at 2 ppm. That means more than 1 min. a year of this behavior creates a lethal condition.
Look at the people in your life, the relationships and more importantly the number of relationships that you don't of have. There is a good chance you have exceeded the deadly level of antisocial behavior.
Chemicals can kill, but they kill because that's what they do. Chemicals have no free will.
Behavior is a direct component of free will. The way you behave is a direct result of who you are and how you feel. Being toxic is a choice. In the words of the Knight in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, “choose wisely".
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