More for the engineers out there.

A minister, a doctor and an engineer were playing golf. At 1st they were enjoying themselves, but then they came up on a group playing ahead of them who were taking a long long time to complete each hole. They would swing erratically and totally miss, or even hit the ball in the wrong direction. After awhile it got on their nerves.

Their caddy said, "Don't be too hard on those guys. They're heroes. They saved some children from a fire and became blinded by toxic fumes that burned their eyes. The owner of the golf course is the father of one of the children whose life they saved, and he lets them play here for free. So cut them some slack. They are true heroes."

The minister was touched and said. "I will pray for them every day."

The doctor said, "I know the head of opthamology at the Mayo clinic. I will contact him and see if there is anything we can do to help these men."

The engineer said, "Why don't they just play at night?"

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
~Jeremy Bentham