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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock No, I really don't have a lot of sympathy. If this particular man's life was all that worth living, he probably would have had something better to do than vandalize a railroad car. In times before the age when Americans decided we had to make the entire planet baby-safe, people were less insulated from the negative effects of their bad choices. Life was, and frankly, still is, dangerous, and trains are inherently dangerous objects. People get killed in their proximity due to accident or carelessness, and I cannot fathom why anyone would think that they are somehow immune to this danger. In India, trains are so crowded that commuters sit on the roof or hang outside of the cars via the windows. A few fall off and die every single day. That's a tragedy--they are just folks trying to get to work, who even paid for their tickets. A dozen or so folks died on the Metra last week for the same reason--and that's a tragedy too. But is the Darwin Award candidate who got run over by a freight train because he was standing on the tracks with his cellphone on one ear and his finger in the other ear to block out the sound of the approaching train's horn a tragedy? Or is it Darwin at work? In the natural world, animals die all the time. But one animal's tragedy is another's success--a deer brought down by wolves is a tragedy to the deer, a triumph to the wolves. A tagger killed by his stupidity is a tragedy to the tagger's family, and a triumph to a society where stupidity is not rewarded. I don't buy the whole "What if he was the next Mother Theresa?" argument at all--statistically speaking, the guy was just as likely to be the next Josef Stalin. I figure that of the folks who die due to accident, stupidity and other causes, the lost Stalins and lost Mother Theresas are probably going to be about equal, maintaining a balance of sorts. [/quote] I totally agree, Jetrock. I have little sympathy for this idiot, too. How could he not hear the train coming? I know sometimes you can't really hear them until they're quite close, but couldn't he feel the ground shaking? Guess not. It was his fault, his parents better not go and sure the railroad.
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