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From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Thu Feb 10 15:59:17 2000

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:35:26PM -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
> I suppose people are going to think I'm a jerk for saying such a thing,
> but IMNSHO the tragedy here isn't that the kids were killed, but that
> they hadn't been taught not to do such things.

I agree... My parents covered all this stuff -- they told us not to dig inside
snowbanks because a plow might come, we all wore seat belts way before there
was a law (bicycle helmets too), our parents strictly enforced what we could
and couldn't watch on TV so there was no need for V chips (I can't believe
they're making us pay for censorship devices now just because some absentee
parent religious freaks got upset), they never let us skate on the Charles
at all, and we never had enough cash of our own to buy porn or cigarettes or
anything else. These days parents teach their kids that *nothing* is their
own responsibility, the whole world is supposed to be idiot-proofed for them.

It's been a slow year here in upstate NY so far, usually by now the TV
newscasts are peppered with people blowing each other away in hunting
"accidents" (beer + bullets = ?), along with an equal number of geniuses
who like to go snowmobiling at night on not-really-frozen lakes, optionally
playing chicken with each other while they're at it (see, the goal is
to crash and *then* drown). The reporters present these incidents as
if they're tragedies but ya just gotta laugh, Darwin would be so proud.
Yet people always want to find someone else to blame.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Thu Feb 10 2000 - 15:59:17 GMT