Human Beings Should?

Knowing the reading habits and memory capacity of my various friends, I'm sure many of you are familiar with this quote:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long

Somebody posted it where I read it today and it made me think ...

I don't think LL's list is really approriate for 2011 But I can do some: diaper, building, sonnet, accounts, wall, bone, take/give orders, cooperate, alone, equations, problem, manure, program and cook are all ones I've done or participated in substantially. I have seen an animal butchered (cow not pig), ship conned (sea not space) and could do it with practice or a good book. I hope I will die well and hope I don't find out for a very long time. The invasion planning I hope never to be involved in but I am good at that type of thing (supply problems). Don't want to know how to fight well but I would like to be better at running away! Comforting the dying I have never tried but I am good at comfort in general. Wow, I'm not so bad at these...