I agree that this is extremely inappropriate for this thread.
Loach
March 2, 2018, 1:22am
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DSeid:
Or not. (People are killed senselessly in all sorts of jobs that are not in general dangerous and even just walking down the street.) But for discussion accept that it should be considered one.
Let’s assume that Mr. Lyons needed to work for the money. No one forced him to take that specific job. He applied for it and was hired. Should the company have not been allowed to hire an older man for the job? Obviously the company did not foresee the risk of some crazed idiots killing an unarmed night watchman on patrol checking the locks, but should they be deciding that it is better to put a younger person at that risk and that an older person who needs or wants the work should have their application declined?
I feel for Czarcasm’s loss. And the tragedy did not occur because his friend was old . If Mr. Lyons was a 45 year old on that job running into whoever it was doing whatever when on patrol (a drug deal going down? who knows?) he’d still have been just as dead and his loss would be the same tragedy.
If the job was patrolling a portion of the industrial park that contained truck parts and making sure it was secured ready to call in any activity that looked suspicious then being armed would not really be considered necessary and most truck part thieves are not interested in killing for the parts. And if dealing with someone or ones who are willing to kill if discovered then being younger or maybe even being armed would not likely likely helped too much.
The senselessness and tragicness of someone on a simple night patrol being murdered are unquestionable. The specific anger that the night watchman was older and shouldn’t have been “let” work that job? That part I don’t get.
Angry that some older Americans have to work to be able to afford a very basic lifestyle? Fine. That’s the case for greeters at Walmart and older Americans working at McDonalds too.
Understood that OP opened the door to discuss the subject and you are just responding to it. You responded. Point made. Now you are being more than a bit tone deaf. Bow out now.
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Damn, Czarcasm , did you just lose a friend in that train crash in DuPont? Man, I hope this year gets better for you.