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Originally Posted by Redlines_Daily
What? So other people can post their angry comments but not the people who actually have a personal connection to the topic, where's the logic in that?
You said yourself that we don't know the cause of the accident, there isn't even any proof that they were speeding. So if the cause is unknown and people are calling their friends 'idiots' then I would say they have a right to be angry and post about it.
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That was not at all what I meant. I definitely did not mean that those who knew the deceased should not comment. But I did mean that this is not a thread about their lives--it is about the incident which caused their deaths.
This is neither the appropriate place to deify them, nor demonize them. They were in the car. The car crashed. They died.
Whether not not they were doing anything dangerous; whether or not they were good people, nothing is changed. But that doesn't mean that nothing
should change. The next time some guy brags about cutting someone off, the next time someone tells you that their tires are too badly worn, the next time you hear someone has just bought a new car, then think of how you felt today. Yesterday. When you heard the news.
The intent of my point was to try and burn away the disaffection many people have around them. Lo those ages ago, when I was a member at BCDSM, one of the members got himself killed in a single car accident. I feel incredibly shitty right now because I can't remember his name. He was a kid in highschool and he took a corner too fast and went straight off the road into a tree. I met his dad once. He bought the car from ICBC and towed it to car meets and events doing his best to remind people how wonderful his son was in life, and how one fucking stupid moment had killed him.
His son killed himself. Not by choice. Not because he was sad. Not because he wanted to die. But because he made one decision. And then his life was gone. Because all it takes is one moment. One instant. One action. And then 20 years of life isn't life anymore.