PuckSniperPensel wrote:
YankeeInRaleigh wrote:
Christ, what a pathetic response dude. You're basically saying "I dont want to actually reply to what you said, so i'll take your stance to an absurd degree and pretend I agree with it to try and make you look foolish and heartless", when we both know you're capable of actually dissecting an argument and replying with some degree of intelligence. If i'd have known you'd resort to just wasting my time with childish bullshit, Adam, I'd not have bothered responding to you.
I became frustrated by your lack of sympathy, and took a short cut.
Look, my point is, outside of suicide related deaths, natural human instinct is to avoid death at all costs. We all want to live to see tomorrow; to enjoy life to the fullest. Every species on earth is programmed to think that way.
Because of this, nearly all deaths, no matter how idiotic, deserve some degree of sympathy, because someone's time on this earth is being taken away from them against their will.
As a human being who enjoys existence on this planet, I feel sympathy for someone who lost his life on a vacation with a bunch of friends.
Forget arguing about whether or not it was an idiotic way to go, because that part doesn't matter. When someone unwillingly leaves this earth, there is always a degree of sadness involved.
Haha, I KNEW You had a real answer in ya.
So, I understand what you're saying here. (or at least I think I do) There is a part of me that wants so badly to embrace some sort of collective consciousness, some...thin strand of energy which connects all living things. God fuck crackers i'd like to actually feel that. 99% of the time I do not.
On another completely related note, i'm a scientist, I believe in ecology, population control, sustainable crop production, and trying hard to live in balance with the world around me. And...I guess it's that part of me which decides, this, or maybe i'm really just some heartless, sociopathic assface, because I really just dont care about that guy. I do not feel the sadness you do, even the sympathetic 'a life was needlessly lost' feeling. And, i'm thinking thats where we just leave that part of the discussion, there really isnt anywhere to go from there I suppose.
I have to address something you said:
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Look, my point is, outside of suicide related deaths, natural human instinct is to avoid death at all costs. We all want to live to see tomorrow; to enjoy life to the fullest. Every species on earth is programmed to think that way.
EXACTLY! We completely agree on this point, except when I hear about this, I think to myself "what was wrong with this person that he did not follow the most BASIC PROGRAMMING his brain possessed?" and then "Well, the selection pressure of evolution, masquerading as gravity this time, claims another unfit organism."
I care for those around me. I care for those who are minding their own business and have some terrible action perpetrated upon them. I do care for people...I just dont tolerate fools, is there a bigger fool than someone willing to throw their life away because they got carried away after a few beers?
sigh, after a re-read this does sound remarkably callous, but to say anything else would just be catering to common sentiment, and that isnt how I feel, so...I'm guessing this is an agree to disagree situation.
(Tyler ennis JUST scored as I was typing this. Boosh bitches!!!!!!!)
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