Jesus Christ man. Whether you think she was wrong or not shouldn’t matter. A young girl got crushed and you answer with this shit? Nobody’s saying you have to agree with her but your comment was so beyond the pale it’s not even under the influence of Earths gravity anymore.
This happened to a human being you piece of shit. Try being one yourself one day you may like it.
jjimm supplied a link with her emails home. Disagree with the woman all you want but to be so callous and flippant about this tragedy puts you in a very bad light IMO.
YMMV unfortunately
Feh. It’s only Brutus. In place of a heart he has a rock. In place of a brain he has an inflated sheep’s bladder. In place of considered opinions he trots out Coulteresque drivel. I gave up paying attention to him long ago.
Well, Brutus’s comments were shocking in their lack of of humanity, but I have to agree that she committed suicide by standing in front of a bulldozer. Moreover, did she think that preserving a house was worth her life? Houses can be rebuilt, but people can’t. She has caused her parents and friends immense grief through her act. She was so young, and her passion and idealism could have been channeled into more productive arenas than in being a martyr who will be forgotten in a few days.
I don’t care what you think of her actions or what your opinion is on Israeli politics, this is a fucking low down way to speak of someone who has just died. I cannot for the life of me work out why you feel the need to dismiss a human life like this. Did you think you were funny? What did you expect, hundreds of follow up posts saying “Congrats, Brutus, what wit, haha, stupid college girl deserved to have died”?
Fuck you, Brutus. Your flippant response wasn’t funny, wasn’t called for and was quite possibly very hurtful, considering that later in the thread, errata mentioned that he or she “knew that young woman.”
This isn’t a great rant, but I feel it doesn’t need to be. Brutus’ insensitivity speaks for itself. That was really low. I’m still shocked that someone could speak with such indifference about another human life, and phrase that indifference in such a sick way.
What is even more sickening is that other posters in that thread expressed similar feelings, though none so crudely and inhumanely as those of Brutus.
the point is gobear, that regardless of what he believes, he should practice just a touch of TACT AND DECORUM and perhaps have just a tad bit of respect for the dead and the dead’s family.
I disagree, gobear. She was obviously wrong; but I’d guess she thought the bulldozer operator would refrain from murder. Houses can be torn down later, but murder victims can’t be revived. The bulldozer operator has killed a person and caused the victim’s parents and friends immense grief through his acts. Hopefully, she won’t be forgotten by the bulldozer operator in a few days. Hopefully, the terrible reality of his murderous actions torments him for the rest of his life.
Can’t agree with you here, i’m afraid. Even the tanks in Tiananmen Square tried to go around that guy standing in their way (the Chinese government charitably waited until later to kill him). Unless that bulldozer was a robot with no human driver, this was not suicide. It was, at best, a terrible accident, and at worst, murder.
Only a piece of filth would say something like that. Fuck you Brutus, you leprous sack of shit. She could have the stupidest person on Earth, and to make the comment that “The only tragedy here is that the Israelis will have to waste some water to clean off the treads” when there are people mourning her loss, such as her certainly emotionally destoyed family, shows you not to be worth inclusion in the human race.
Those sentiments would have meaning, Revtim if Brutus had said those things to her greiving family. Unless you have knowledge that her family are regular lurkers here on the SDMB, they don’t have anything to do with his statements.
Do you feel the same way when reading “the Darwin awards”?
He said “the only tragedy” was having to wash the treads. In other, words, her family and friends being emotionally destroyed by her death is not a tragedy.
It has nothing to do with whether they are reading the forum or not.
So correct me if I’m getting this wrong, but this girl just stood in front of an oncoming tractor and let it smash her into a damp spot in the sand? And I’m supposed to feel sorry for her? Sorry, no. I’m saving my pity for people who had terrible things happen to them through no fault of their own, not for people who had terrible things happen to them through their own mammoth stupidity.
There seem to be some conflicting reports. Some say that she tripped, and some say she laid down. I haven’t seen any with what you’d call “definitive” evidence, although it may be out there somewhere.
This illustrates the fallacy of the “protesters” perfectly. As a friend of mine said on another board, “You cannot simultaneously demonize a group and expect their basic sense of humanity to save your life.”
It was suicide, pure and simple, if only suicide by means of stupidity.
