I agree with you all on the subject that in the end I couldn't care less, but at least I have the decency to resist using his vulnerability as a form of entertainment. Out of respect, even though I know that I will not pay it one more second of thought after I leave this topic. And dem, the fact that you are so unaffected and unresponsive to death is not a normal thing to be, nor is it a healthy thing to be...so although you may have that point of view, you must realize that 95% of the u.s. was not raped and beaten when growing up, and has not had the unfortunate (in some ways) life that you have had...most people are going to think differently than you, and they will use a different form of logic and scale of compassion than you do. Death happens, its a part of life, I totally agree, but because most humans are compassionate and "humane" individuals (although you seem to be part of a small portion of the population who is desensitized to death/suffering because of your personal past) that when someone dies they are distraught and pained not really because of the subject of death, but mostly because of the fact that they shared such a relationship with the deceased that they will miss the bond, the relationship, the heart and soul of the deceased rather than the physical aspect of death. so although death happens, I would argue that our innate tendencies to bond with one another make it more painful to witness a death than to consider it merely a natural cycle. I must admit that am more desensitized than most individuals, I have had two friends die so far, one shot himself in the forehead with his rifle and the other just died in a drunk driving accident about a month ago, and I didn't waste too much time on dwelling over either. I didn't get distraught over them, mostly because they both had personal choices that directly led to their deaths. I even like seeing gruesome crime scene pictures and videos of war and ganglife (to an extent) and the idea of death, just as birth, fascinates me and leaves many more unanswered questions than actual answers....but I also know that a large portion of the population is more affected than I am by the idea of death, especially when dealing with a loved one. Like I said, it just comes down to respect for the person and their bond with the deceased.
I never disagreed, just stated there are plenty of people just like myself who are desensitized to almost everything you could bring up. I also lack respect for people until they earn my respect. Majin, for instance, has earned my respect (most days) and thus when his friend died, I remotely cared enough not to bring it up and shove it in his face. LL hasn't earned my respect (and very few individuasl do, and very rarely are they not involved in my MSN / IRC chats), so as far as I am concerned its fair game, though I am obviously not acting like some of the others in here, the end remains the same. Most of us don't care, and most of the individuals here acting like they care have fabricated emotions because that is how they were tuned to handle such things.
I'm not particularly disrespectful or callow, to people who actually earnt respect in the first place. Any child who pops onto IRC to cry and moan to people they barely know, when there's a million better avenues to do it via, can't honestly expect a nice reception. If somebody comes up to you on the street and says "I'm depressed" you're not about to hug them and crap, you'd shoo them away for being a freak. If my kid was contemplating suicide, I'd tell him to get his ass of the internet and talk to a psychiatrist ; heck, if someone was telling him to commit suicide. How about...Who the ------ cares? No one commits suicide because of the internet, /fact. The internet itself is never responsible, the people cheering on the people WHO FOR SOME BIZARRE ------ING REASON decide they need to tell the whole world about how depressed they are and about how much life sucks, are not to blame. If anybody commits suicide after being told to on a chat room then you're preety much guaranteed that they were going to do it anyway. And heck, if not then, they've got serious serious issues and it's their lazy ass parents fault for doing ------ all about it, or their fault for not pulling themself out of it and realizing life isn't going to always be that easy. ------ing emo kids.
