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Originally Posted by Justsomeguy
A child (yes, an 18 year old is still a child in the U.S.) getting killed in this way is not accepted easily by very many people unless your an extremist with a skewed perspective of reality.
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No, you're incorrect, an 18 year old is an adult, in every state of the US. To say otherwise shows the true bias that so transparently colors your speech and leads you to slander me.
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Next, I want to comment on your attack on my comments. Let me say that such an action by someone in a somewhat authoritative is truely pathetic. It undermines any legitimate statement you could have made. A simple of "I'm sorry if the posted offended someone," followed by an explanation of the post would have been sufficient. However, a defense is ridiculous. Let me just say that you took the low road, and I wouldn't want you to aid in my community.
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A defense of my position is not ridiculous, it is merely upholding my opinion against your dissent of it. Also, I did not attack your comments- my tone and speech was only that of disagreement. I said nothing even remotely personal, let alone an "attack". Not to mention that I DID say I was sorry if something struck a cord with you- but YES, reality is that this happened, and it was stupid and avoidable. You can't argue that walking along railroad tracks isn't stupid, and you can't argue that the death wasn't avoidable. You just can't. Saying a person's death was stupid and avoidable is not mocking them. It's pointing out the obvious.
The point of the thread was that some people, perhaps people like yourself, take upon their shoulders the weight of every even slightly significant death to grace their awareness. They put psychological monuments up to the death of a person whom they've never met, and for random reasons. People unnecessarily burden themselves with the deaths they perceive around them, assigning them some incredible level of importance even as the death itself was a display in stupidity.
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Finally, let me comment on your definition of a tragedy. You're comment mimics that of someone who has never really experienced reality. You can argue semantics for the rest of your life. However, death, even in negligence, can be just as tragic as the conditions you described. Just ask mothers who lost their children due to stupid things there kids did.
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So the general tone of your post is that I'm an asshole- some callous, heartless bastard who has "never really experienced reality" (whatever that means)... but in your mind, i'm going to get a fair and accurate appraisal of the term "tragedy" from a parent who has lost a child?
Yeah. Right. Ok. You keep thinking that. I'm kinda on the fence about abortion, maybe i'll go to a pro-life meeting and see what they think, just so i can get a fair and useful opinion. /sarcasm
Suggesting the answer to your assertion can be found in such a horrendously biased source is insulting to me.
My point is that this girl died a stupid, avoidable death. She did something extremely dangerous and foolish and SURPRISE she died, but is receiving tears of extreme sympathy from all kinds of people, being heralded as such a great girl, etc. She was one of about 1,500 deaths that day, statistically (just in the US alone, mind you), but gets all kinds of press and whatnot as her death being a tragedy. Her death was not a tragedy, not an accident- it was just another death that day.