--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Akal Ashata Alis" <akalalis_at_e...> wrote:
>
> In regards to this stuff about things being over due and the weather -
> someone I once knew said it best - and mind you, he was talking about
> Earthquakes, but I suspect that it could be applied to alot of different
> metrological<sp> phenomina:
>
> ' Earthquakes are fun - it's just depressing that people die or get hurt
> in them.'.
> Point is, yes, people getting dead sucks. But does that diminish the fun?
> Not at the time, only afterward.
That... has got to be just about as ignorant a statement as the one I originally replied to, if not more ignorant.
Some rollercoasters have also killed
> people - some quite a few people. This does not make rollercoasters any less
> fun. The same can be said for rock climbing, or any extreme sport.
Yes, but those are risks that we take willingly, if we choose to. I suppose you could (and probably would) argue that living in a high-risk area for hurricanes is also a choice, but a natural disaster can happen anywhere.
> We also need the rain that storms provide. I'd be more of a cynic, but my
> less joyful and darker opinions have no place in this forum.
> AAA (who does like climbing rocks, but refuses to get on certain
> rollercoasters)
I wasn't being cynical. The post I replied to truly bothered me. I don't know if you're old enough to really remember the devastating earthquake in the San Francisco/Oakland area back in 1989, but something I saw on TV in the aftermath really troubled me. It was video footage of a person standing in the middle of a street, pointing at a crack in the pavement and laughing. And not more than twenty yards behind them was a partially collapsed building that-- who knows?-- someone may have died in. The post I replied to struck me the same way. Yes, it was posted *before* the storm hit and did its damage, but does that really make it any less inappropriate? Can someone really say, "Oh, well I didn't know it would kill anyone," when we know that that's what hurricanes do when they make landfall?
Hey, people are free to think whatever they want, and to post those thoughts if they want to. I just don't see why anyone would *want* to portray themselves that way. People sometimes say things before they really think them through-- and when you're talking with your mouth, it's understandable that those slip-ups happen. But when you're typing a message, you're given an opportunity to think before you press that "send" button. I guess I just wish people did that more often.
-Kiffa, the cat/mouse hybrid
"I'm my own worst enemy."
Received on Mon Aug 16 2004 - 21:14:39 CDT