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psmith2.0
Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2021-10-15, 19:40

Exactly.

He didn't die doing something noble or advancing the species/race. He didn't blow up in space or get crushed thousands of feet down in the ocean.

Like some of the other stories upthread, he died doing something unnecessary or stupid.

I can't spare the sympathy/handwringing for these types. They're entertainment, at best. Sad cautionary tales, beyond that.

If that makes me an asshole, then an asshole I will be.

But this asshole reserves his concern or grief for those who deserve it a bit more, sorry.

I don't have the endless well I once did, and this world, in recent years, seems to be taking it from me faster than I can replenish.

Am I "rationing" my concern and empathy? You bet I am. To those who deserve it...accident and crime victims, those suffering from horrible illnesses, the neglected and abandoned, the abused and bullied, the defenseless, etc.

Not morons who do things nobody is asking for or needs, and wind up dying (or severely injured) in the stupidest fucking ways imaginable.
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