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Post by Nick Swisher on Mar 23, 2009 14:29:59 GMT -5
What the hell is wrong with people here? When someone makes a thread about a family member or pet dieing, everyone leaves a nice comment. But when it is someone that isn't somehow related to a forum member, they are ing pricks. Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care?
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Post by mvpisballin on Mar 23, 2009 14:35:29 GMT -5
What the hell is wrong with people here? When someone makes a thread about a family member or pet dieing, everyone leaves a nice comment. But when it is someone that isn't somehow related to a forum member, they are ing pricks. Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? So, if someone walked up to you and said, "You can have $100 if I kill someone you never met before in some far-off land. But if you tell me not to, I won't kill the person, but you can't have $100." Would you take the money just because you 'don't care' about a person you have never met?
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Post by slappy on Mar 23, 2009 14:39:24 GMT -5
Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? So, if someone walked up to you and said, "You can have $100 if I kill someone you never met before in some far-off land. But if you tell me not to, I won't kill the person, but you can't have $100." Would you take the money just because you 'don't care' about a person you have never met? Why would they pay you for them to kill someone? Want to talk about ing pricks? How many people did you rip off?
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Post by Nick Swisher on Mar 23, 2009 14:39:55 GMT -5
Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? So, if someone walked up to you and said, "You can have $100 if I kill someone you never met before in some far-off land. But if you tell me not to, I won't kill the person, but you can't have $100." Would you take the money just because you 'don't care' about a person you have never met? That could be the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my entire life.....
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Post by mvpisballin on Mar 23, 2009 14:40:09 GMT -5
So, if someone walked up to you and said, "You can have $100 if I kill someone you never met before in some far-off land. But if you tell me not to, I won't kill the person, but you can't have $100." Would you take the money just because you 'don't care' about a person you have never met? Why would they pay you for them to kill someone? It's just a hypothetical statement.
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Post by Mizz Lola on Mar 23, 2009 14:41:01 GMT -5
Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? So, if someone walked up to you and said, "You can have $100 if I kill someone you never met before in some far-off land. But if you tell me not to, I won't kill the person, but you can't have $100." Would you take the money just because you 'don't care' about a person you have never met? I don't want to sound all controversial here but you realize that you just described how some view the military. People getting paid to go off to a foreign land to kill people. Have you ever listened to that Bruce Springsteen song "Born In The USA" the one Reagan used to get some votes. Should we always feel bad for every single death on Earth? I can tell you when Terri Schiavo died I thought finally that dear woman is out of her misery.
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Post by mvpisballin on Mar 23, 2009 14:45:04 GMT -5
So, if someone walked up to you and said, "You can have $100 if I kill someone you never met before in some far-off land. But if you tell me not to, I won't kill the person, but you can't have $100." Would you take the money just because you 'don't care' about a person you have never met? I don't want to sound all controversial here but you realize that you just described how some view the military. People getting paid to go off to a foreign land to kill people. Have you ever listened to that Bruce Springsteen song "Born In The USA" the one Reagan used to get some votes. Should we always feel bad for every single death on Earth? I can tell you when Terri Schiavo died I thought finally that dear woman is out of her misery. No, not for everyone. We shouldn't feel bad for psycho killers or people with disease who are being let free, but this was a group of healthy/innocent people.
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Post by slappy on Mar 23, 2009 14:46:32 GMT -5
I don't want to sound all controversial here but you realize that you just described how some view the military. People getting paid to go off to a foreign land to kill people. Have you ever listened to that Bruce Springsteen song "Born In The USA" the one Reagan used to get some votes. Should we always feel bad for every single death on Earth? I can tell you when Terri Schiavo died I thought finally that dear woman is out of her misery. No, not for everyone. We shouldn't feel bad for psycho killers or people with disease who are being let free, but this was a group of healthy/innocent people. How do you know? What if one of the children grew up to be the next Hitler?
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Post by Mizz Lola on Mar 23, 2009 14:48:37 GMT -5
I don't want to sound all controversial here but you realize that you just described how some view the military. People getting paid to go off to a foreign land to kill people. Have you ever listened to that Bruce Springsteen song "Born In The USA" the one Reagan used to get some votes. Should we always feel bad for every single death on Earth? I can tell you when Terri Schiavo died I thought finally that dear woman is out of her misery. No, not for everyone. We shouldn't feel bad for psycho killers or people with disease who are being let free, but this was a group of healthy/innocent people. What makes Terri Schiavo any less innocent than these people? Do you know who she was? Her family selfishly kept her on life support for 13 years. She was clinically brain dead. She was an innocent victim to her families wants over her needs. Why should these 14-17 people gain more of my sympathy than someone else? I did not know any of those people and while yes it's tragic they died, in reality their death has no more effect on me than any other strangers.
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Post by mvpisballin on Mar 23, 2009 14:49:13 GMT -5
No, not for everyone. We shouldn't feel bad for psycho killers or people with disease who are being let free, but this was a group of healthy/innocent people. What makes Terri Schiavo any less innocent than these people? Do you know who she was? Her family selfishly kept her on life support for 13 years. She was clinically brain dead. She was an innocent victim to her families wants over her needs. Why should these 14-17 people gain more of my sympathy than someone else? I did not know any of those people and while yes it's tragic they died, in reality their death has no more effect on me than any other strangers.
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Post by Mizz Lola on Mar 23, 2009 14:53:04 GMT -5
What makes Terri Schiavo any less innocent than these people? Do you know who she was? Her family selfishly kept her on life support for 13 years. She was clinically brain dead. She was an innocent victim to her families wants over her needs. Why should these 14-17 people gain more of my sympathy than someone else? I did not know any of those people and while yes it's tragic they died, in reality their death has no more effect on me than any other strangers. That what you bolded truly shows that you have no clue about her case. She didn't have a disease. She was in a coma after a fall, something happened to her heart, no disease something sudden. Either way what makes a person with a disease any less worthy of sympathy than these people? You are totally avoiding the question.
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Post by mvpisballin on Mar 23, 2009 14:56:04 GMT -5
That what you bolded truly shows that you have no clue about her case. She didn't have a disease. She was in a coma after a fall, something happened to her heart, no disease something sudden. Either way what makes a person with a disease any less worthy of sympathy than these people? You are totally avoiding the question. Your making this big of a deal between being ing brain dead and terminally ill?
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Post by AdamBomb on Mar 23, 2009 14:56:14 GMT -5
What the hell is wrong with people here? When someone makes a thread about a family member or pet dieing, everyone leaves a nice comment. But when it is someone that isn't somehow related to a forum member, they are ing pricks. Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? You (and I mean everyone in general) don't have to care, but you should at least have the common decency and respect not to make ing stupid jokes, or try to make clever little quips. People died - instead of saying "RIP" or even making some kind of decent gesture, a lot of people have compared this and something else standing high and mighty on their soap box - or made asinine jokes.
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Post by Mizz Lola on Mar 23, 2009 15:09:16 GMT -5
That what you bolded truly shows that you have no clue about her case. She didn't have a disease. She was in a coma after a fall, something happened to her heart, no disease something sudden. Either way what makes a person with a disease any less worthy of sympathy than these people? You are totally avoiding the question. Your making this big of a deal between being ing brain dead and terminally ill? Being terminally ill you actually are not already dead. Brain Dead means you are physically dead. Still again what makes her life or a terminally ill person's life any less. Both are equally upsetting. While death is natural, plane crashes and disease are not. They are rather upsetting.
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Post by Mizz Lola on Mar 23, 2009 15:11:45 GMT -5
Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? You (and I mean everyone in general) don't have to care, but you should at least have the common decency and respect not to make ing stupid jokes, or try to make clever little quips. People died - instead of saying "RIP" or even making some kind of decent gesture, a lot of people have compared this and something else standing high and mighty on their soap box - or made asinine jokes. No my whole point is that all of those 14 to 17 people should be equally mourned. Nothing makes any one of them more of tragedy than the other. The article was clearly written to pull you to feel some type of way and to only feel for a percentage of those dead. To mean each of those people had a reason to live and now that they are dead, there's someone in this world missing them. Why should I feel more for one because he was of high school age as opposed to one who was 35 with a wife and two kids.
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Post by Nick Swisher on Mar 23, 2009 15:16:56 GMT -5
Its terrible the amount of people that die everyday and I'm sorry for everyones losses, but if it doesn't impact our lives...why care? You (and I mean everyone in general) don't have to care, but you should at least have the common decency and respect not to make ing stupid jokes, or try to make clever little quips. People died - instead of saying "RIP" or even making some kind of decent gesture, a lot of people have compared this and something else standing high and mighty on their soap box - or made asinine jokes. Im sorry but its kind of ironic that they crashed and died in a CEMETERY.
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Post by AdamBomb on Mar 23, 2009 15:24:08 GMT -5
You (and I mean everyone in general) don't have to care, but you should at least have the common decency and respect not to make ing stupid jokes, or try to make clever little quips. People died - instead of saying "RIP" or even making some kind of decent gesture, a lot of people have compared this and something else standing high and mighty on their soap box - or made asinine jokes. Im sorry but its kind of ironic that they crashed and died in a CEMETERY. The fact hat you had to point that out and get some 'lulz' from it is sad. I like a good laugh myself, but there is a line between funny and indecent. That's just as bad to me as people saying, it should say 'this', or it should say 'that'. I find it hard to believe a lot of people making these comments have been affected by the sudden death of someone close to them.
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Post by slappy on Mar 23, 2009 15:35:21 GMT -5
Im sorry but its kind of ironic that they crashed and died in a CEMETERY. The fact hat you had to point that out and get some 'lulz' from it is sad. I like a good laugh myself, but there is a line between funny and indecent. That's just as bad to me as people saying, it should say 'this', or it should say 'that'. I find it hard to believe a lot of people making these comments have been affected by the sudden death of someone close to them. I have been, more than several times.
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Post by Mizz Lola on Mar 23, 2009 16:01:45 GMT -5
Im sorry but its kind of ironic that they crashed and died in a CEMETERY. The fact hat you had to point that out and get some 'lulz' from it is sad. I like a good laugh myself, but there is a line between funny and indecent. That's just as bad to me as people saying, it should say 'this', or it should say 'that'. I find it hard to believe a lot of people making these comments have been affected by the sudden death of someone close to them. Yeah one of my best friends commited suicide. However, again what makes her life more important than that of someone identical to her dying naturally?
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Post by AdamBomb on Mar 23, 2009 17:04:27 GMT -5
Yeah one of my best friends commited suicide. However, again what makes her life more important than that of someone identical to her dying naturally? I never said anything made her life more important than anyone else's. Honestly, it seems like a lot of people here are looking for some kind of argument rather than being bigger people about it, and recognizing some people have died, and being mature about it. I'm sure if your kid died in a terrible accident (God forbid that happen), the last thing you'd want to read is a bunch of idiots on the internet making light of it, right? You wouldn't want them to be saying, 'gee, it's only news worthy because it was a kid.' Right? I try to look at things like this in a more sympathetic light, instead of cracking jokes and preaching bullshit, like so many in here seem to do.
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