Poll: Am I a Bad Person?
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No sympathy.
was actually asked by some girls I know about my opinion of such an event (though it was a hypthetical "what if" thing) and I said quite simply I would not feel sorry for them. I dont know the people, and if they were driving drunk, they asked for what happened to them. Than I was asked how I would like the same treatment if I was in that situation, and I couldnt help but laugh. Whne they asked why, I told them that while I may be a C+ average college student, Im not stupid enough to get behind the wheel of a vehicle while drunk, and if I ever was, and I didnt die but went into a coma, and ppl got donations to help with my treatments, if I woke up, I wouldnt send thank-you letters, but little cards saying, "you're a moron."
So, no, you are not a bad person, you are not a great person though, but you're not a prick like people probably said you are. You're smart enough to know that having sympathy for those girls is against the laws of nature. (and yes, I am a firm believer in Darwini's theory.)
was actually asked by some girls I know about my opinion of such an event (though it was a hypthetical "what if" thing) and I said quite simply I would not feel sorry for them. I dont know the people, and if they were driving drunk, they asked for what happened to them. Than I was asked how I would like the same treatment if I was in that situation, and I couldnt help but laugh. Whne they asked why, I told them that while I may be a C+ average college student, Im not stupid enough to get behind the wheel of a vehicle while drunk, and if I ever was, and I didnt die but went into a coma, and ppl got donations to help with my treatments, if I woke up, I wouldnt send thank-you letters, but little cards saying, "you're a moron."
So, no, you are not a bad person, you are not a great person though, but you're not a prick like people probably said you are. You're smart enough to know that having sympathy for those girls is against the laws of nature. (and yes, I am a firm believer in Darwini's theory.)
Oh my goodness! How horrible!
Their poor car...I'd donate a little bit to help fix the car up; it can go to a more responsible person!
Also, I admire all three girls! The one that died, and the other two who are in a coma. Thank goodness they crashed before they hit an innocent bystander! Also, kudos for them for not crowding our prison system! Also, for testing out our new universal health care plan!
Bless their unintentionally efficient souls.
Their poor car...I'd donate a little bit to help fix the car up; it can go to a more responsible person!
Also, I admire all three girls! The one that died, and the other two who are in a coma. Thank goodness they crashed before they hit an innocent bystander! Also, kudos for them for not crowding our prison system! Also, for testing out our new universal health care plan!
Bless their unintentionally efficient souls.
You're probably right, but in that situation it's best to keep shut and donate.
Death is a touchy subject.
Death is a touchy subject.
Indeed. Hiding whom you are because people might not like your true face is not a thing I see as very honorable. Unless, of course, people seeing your true character might actually have some dire consequences for you. For example, not telling your customers you think they are idiots.busterkeatonrules said:
You get judged by what you say and do, not who you are, ie act like a dick, dick or not, you get treated like one im afraid
Personally speaking, I hate that it's how things are. The fact that my country-men have decided that healthcare should be for profit, is honestly disgusting. I don't like to think that if I get really sick, my life will be held hostage until I pay a ransom so that a doctor will heal me.Woodsey said:
Unfortunately, that's not the predominant opinion here. The myth of the "protestant work ethic" is sort of a rampant disease here. People believe that if you work hard, you'll be rewarded. They believe that anyone who didn't work hard enough to have health insurance probably doesn't deserve it. And they're also simply afraid, that if we give everyone a right to healthcare, there won't be enough to go around. I don't want to justify it, but I do try to understand it.
You are in some ways correctin your beliefs and assertions.
However, part of being a functioning human in society is recognising when you should proclaim your beliefs and when you should keep them quietly to yourself. Politely decline to pay, citing personal reasons of beliefs. If they push warn them against it. If they push further explain calmly and rationally why you do not think you should pay the bills of people who were probably unwise to be out so late.
Due to the dead. In the same way that you don't badmouth someone behind their back unless you're pretty mean, badmouthing someone when their dead begins to cross a line of common decency, especially when talking to their friends.
You're not a bad person per se, and you weren't entirely wrong in your beliefs, but that was not the time to express them.
However, part of being a functioning human in society is recognising when you should proclaim your beliefs and when you should keep them quietly to yourself. Politely decline to pay, citing personal reasons of beliefs. If they push warn them against it. If they push further explain calmly and rationally why you do not think you should pay the bills of people who were probably unwise to be out so late.
Due to the dead. In the same way that you don't badmouth someone behind their back unless you're pretty mean, badmouthing someone when their dead begins to cross a line of common decency, especially when talking to their friends.
You're not a bad person per se, and you weren't entirely wrong in your beliefs, but that was not the time to express them.
This happened at my high school. Two girls got into a car (while intoxicated) with a drunk driver knowing he was drunk and they crashed. One ended up in a coma for like 2 weeks. Everyone felt bad for them and wanted to help them. They got all this special attention and allowances. I hated that they were being rewarded for their stupidity and for endangering people who weren't involved (pedestrians and other drivers).
Having no sympathy for those who do stupid things, that's alright. Having no sympathy or any attempt to not hurt the feelings of someone who has just had their friends killed/put into a coma, that's being a bad person.
If drunk driving leads to the death of the drunken driver, I consider it only a natural consequence of said driver's stupidity and would tell him to dig his own way out of it.
except one of them was able to avoid the proverbial Barret 50. Cal sniper rifle of said theory.balanovich said:
Roads are bad, and they're spending money on fuel when the roads are bad and they shouldn't bother wasting the money, they were drunk in the middle of the morning/day, more money wasted.
other people are asked to compensate for their sillyness? more money wasted.
other people are asked to compensate for their sillyness? more money wasted.
meh.. I suppose its a bit stupid doing that, drink driving in general is.. I wouldn't donate money openly but as I live in the UK with the NHS I suppose I wouldn't paying taxes to make sure these people don't die..
So I suppose if the alternative is they die then I'd say you're bad..
So I suppose if the alternative is they die then I'd say you're bad..
No one really deserves death in my opinion. Still, I can't find good reason to prevent stupid people's actions from catching up with them. Maybe it would have simply been best to lie here. Claim you have no money and not insult the dead and/or critically wounded. If you need aid with that, imagine someone stabs you and sends their buddies to the hospital to laugh at you and say you deserved it for not walking out of the house in a full suit of chain mail.
In just about any other situation I'd say yes, but these girls were drunk (At 11 fucking AM) and they were driving in horrendous weather conditions at the same time, they deserve little sympathy. It sucks that the one girl died, but people need to pay for their own stupdity themselves, not ask others to do it for them.