I hope a kid doesn't get killed

[Tom Kitten]

I'm sick and tired of this pseudo poseur irony bullshit no matter what your true feelings are when it comes to real matters of life and death...a kid does not deserve to die through someone else's negligence, even if you just want to prove a point with your freeper enemies.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Thank you,

that post yesterday was disturbing. Someone needs to die for a ride on a shopping cart? What a perspective! I think that was extreme.

[liberalitch]

2. Last sunday night I was afraid that someone I love was going to die...

Oh, right now he's (in pain) but lying on the couch drinkin' coffee and smokin' a butt..... BUT, if someone here had said "No insurance.... will I hope that he dies because then it will show people how badly we need national health care." I think that... well.. I don't know how I would have reacted.

[cornermouse]

3. What are you talking about?

[Bunny]

4. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3065959

[Tom Kitten]

5. attitude, basically...

I have a problem with with people who show callousness towards other people's sufferings and death...
Everybody here is free to consider it a personal problem of mine and can ignore me at your own free will ...

[Bunny]

6. I am happy you posted this.

I found the other thread appalling. To hope for an innocent kid to die simply because his parents are assholes is just too much.

[stellanoir]

7. I truly hope a kid doesn't get killed either.

But I think the author of that post was merely reacting to what it sometimes takes to get people to be more conscious in this culture.

Maybe 15-20 years ago, there was a tragedy in a neighboring town where a child was killed when they got run over by a school bus just after he or she disembarked. Then the state ruled that every school bus in this state would have an aide get off the bus every time the bus stops and look under the tires for stray children lurking underneath them. The aides get full benefits for doing this a few hours a day.

Now please understand, I'm thrilled that no more children have been run over by school buses here ever since. But everytime I'm stuck behind a bus and I watch these aides hopping on and off of them, I think of the art and music programs that have been cut due to budget problems and my kid's ancient school books. I also think of how unbelievably unlikely it would be that a bus driver would not be paying attention and a kid would end up under a tire at the same moment. I mean maybe the kid dropped something that was really important to them and it rolled under the path of the tire but it was truly a freak accident. Not to knock the kid as we all space out sometimes, but I really think almost all kids know to stay the heck away from soon to be moving vehicles.

Sometimes I think our culture over reacts to isolated incidents when the likelihood of their reoccurrance is incredible remote.

Another example of this is there was a huge nightclub tragedy here a couple years ago. The band set off pyrotechnics in a place with very low ceilings and the recently installed soundproofing was highly, highly flammable. It was later described as being similar to "solid gasoline." The whole place erupted in flames in minutes if not seconds.

A hundred people died. I knew one of them. This tragedy was pretty much due to two idiotic decisions. One being that the club bought the cheaper highly flammable soundproofing versus the more expensive fire retardant stuff, and the other being, lighting pyrotechnics designed for much large venues.

So the state responded by imposing these draconian fire regulations and now kids can't hang artwork on the walls of their class rooms. As if. . .metal bands are going to set off pyrotechnics in class.

These types of things truly boggle my mind and sort of parallel some of the foolish ways our country has responded to 9/11. IMHO

/rant

[Tom Kitten]

9. I understand...

I just don't go for it...has anybody asked our kids what they want or think of our society outside of what they've been pretty much told to say based on our current society?

[stellanoir]

10. well

I do know the kids think no art on the walls is really dumb and that the school bus aides are a complete and total insult to their intelligence. LOL

[all.of.me]

8. thank you.

that subject line made me uncomfortable every time i saw it.

i just hope that parents wake up, but not at the expense of a life, child OR adult.

[Tom Kitten]

11. it would be nice if parents

knew responsibility when the time came for it, i.e., when you have kids watching and loving your every move...Call me a socialist or worse but I always thought we were put here to better ourselves and help towards building a better future for our offspring...And you don't get that way by killing other people indiscriminately even if you say you're doing it for the good of all...

[JimmyJazz]

12. Thank you.

It is a shame that sometimes it takes a tragedy for people to stop negligent behavior, but to wish some kid would die so that change could be made is horrid. I think the poster says that they don't really wish that within the body of the message, but the subject line seems in poor taste, IMHO.

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Is your kitten pink...

...or is it just me? :evilgrin:

[Tom Kitten]

15. well you know how that goes...

the kitten was meant to be red but converting the colors from RGB to CMYK and then manipulating and then reconverting them back to RGB for the web can lead to some problems if you don't know exactly what you're doing...

That being said, I don't care much for the pink look myself and will soon try to rectify the color... Not that there's anything wrong with the way it looks now, it just seems like I've been inundated by a batch of mind readers!

[Longgrain]

14. Nice post, thank you, and I agree, no child deserves to die...

I've refrained from posting in that other thread so far, so I'll post here instead.

Thank you.

[two gun sid]

16. How about this: I hope some stupid fuck feels some discomfort....

as a direct result of their actions, inaction and/or stupidity. No one has to die, but, being stupid should be painful.