This reminds me – a lot of the 9/11 survivors ended up with gigantic amounts of cash from donations made after the bombings. 9/11 widowers and widowers were suddenly multi-millionaires. If you had been one of those survivors, would you have taken the money or turned it down.
Does it mean that you will?
I would have taken it. But I wouldn’t have thanked Osama bin Laden for it.
It’s not a question of whether or not he’d take the money–it’s a question of whether or not he’d thank the bombers for killing his spouse, so that he now has all this money.
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Of course not. I’m not the one placing retarded restrictions on what “moral right” people have to comment on the actions of others.
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What’s the matter–“I know you are but what am I” getting used too often these days?
No, his hypothetical was just about taking the money. Pay attention.
That’s EXACTLY what you’re doing. That’s what the whole OP is doing.
No, you’re a retard who can’t read. Pay attention. Here, I’ll even quote it for you:
Nowhere in there does he say anything about taking the money or not taking the money. He’s saying that no amount of compensation can make him thank the person who injured him, especially when others were injured as badly or worse in the same incident but received no compensation.
I’m not saying she can’t say it–in fact, I’ve explicitly said that she may. However, I may also judge her for saying it, just as you may judge me for commenting on her saying it.
Whose hypothetical?
Oh. Well, fair enough, then.
If I shot you and a million dollars flew out of your asshole you’d have no cause to thank me anyway. I mean, if I dislike you enough to shoot you, I certainly dislike you enough to steal your ass-money.
Exactly! As has been said in the many threads about a couple of you-know-who’s , not everything that enters one’s mind need be verbalized.
I think most people who survive an event like the Ft. Hood shooting feel something called “survivor’s guilt.” It’s a documented phenomenon that makes people feel guilty for getting out of the situation alive and feeling relieved, or even happy, that someone else’s misfortune didn’t become your own. It’s natural to feel “Thank God it wasn’t me [in those towers/on those planes/in that school/etc.]” But general decency usually prevents people from going public about how grateful they are to the perpetrator for the incidental benefits of the atrocity. It’s just bad taste.
Of course she can feel the way she wants, but I reserve my right to criticize her for putting out those feelings in as public a manner as possible.
If you weren’t too busy shooting everyone else. It’s the EMTs scooping up all the victims who get the ass cash windfall.
Ok, I misread it. I missed the “thank you” part.
Which is one of the reasons why they’re perfect for armed services.
This is the part that her defenders seem to be missing. I guess all those dead people were just the collateral damage of her non-deployment.
Band name. (with “I’d Take That Today” as their lead single)
Ah. She’s The Most Important Person In The World. I get it now. Any action that benefits her is good, any action that is to her detriment is bad.
Eh…that’s no different than all the people who thank God for saving them or their loved ones from earthquakes and plane crashes.
And I think doing that in public is a little on the tacky side, too. Especially if you’re saying it where you know the relatives of people who didn’t make it through the same incident will hear you. OK (and perhaps unavoidable, human nature being what it is) to think, OK to pray in private, rather rude to say in public.
Her comments are extremely insensitive to those fellow soldiers that also got to avoid deployment…by being dead.
I empathize with her and her family’s relief over not having to deploy, but at the same time, that sentiment should have been shared in private amongst the family members, not with the freaking media.
I hope that she gets an admonishment from someone in her chain of command.
If it makes you feel any better, I don’t like them, either.
Well, Hassan was a superior officer. I think she’s been admonished enough.