Reply #157: We're talking about human beings here...

[DixieBlue]

not commodities.

It's really, really disheartening to see so many DUers forgetting that every life is valuable. I know I'm a relative newbie around here and what I say has little weight, but it makes DUers look no better than the RW nutjob who style themselves "compassionate conservatives".

This whole blame game is sickening. Perhaps the climbers misjudged the situation ... but we shouldn't blame them for their deaths or the rescue efforts. Blaming the dead, or potentially dead, makes the blamers look like harpies.

All human life is of value. Don't people here talk about how monetary/class status should never stand in the way of getting help, services? If that's true for the poor that's true for the more affluent as well. It doesn't have to be a case of "this person is more deserving that that". They're deserving, period.

A reporter once asked Gandhi what he thought of western civilization. Gandhi's reply "I think it would be a good idea!"

A little compassion might be a good idea about now.