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Two thoughts I had while watching this video: 1) Given how dry it was, what if this asshole started a forest fire. It would take little more than a spark in t
by kyleblarson 4y ago
Two thoughts I had while watching this video:
1) Given how dry it was, what if this asshole started a forest fire. It would take little more than a spark in that tinder dry scrub.
2) Given the terrain, it's too bad he didn't stumble across one ore more angry rattlesnakes or cougars.
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- poopsmithe 4y agoI think your #2 is unjust and illogical given the lack of harm caused by the stunt.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoI don’t know if it’s an American thing, but I definitely hear a lot of “stupid people should suffer serious harm” around me. “Stupid people shouldn’t breed” is popular phrase. As in, they should have died to spare humanity their existence. This attitude definitely shows in our legal system and how much of our population in prison. It doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it should and I’m trying to think differently. :(
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoThe popularity of such phrases as "stupid people shouldn't breed" seems to be correlated to the degree which the rest of society is punished for the once-upon-a-time actions of stupid people. Stupid people aren't really a big problem if you're not using them to set the lowest common denominator by which you treat everyone.
- gretch 4y agoI highly disagree with this. I think it's because of the asymmetry between how hard it is to create something and how easy it is to destroy something. For example, it takes a team of skilled people months to construct a house and 1 idiot with a can of gas and a lighter to burn it down overnight. This actually happens a lot - like in california a gender reveal party burned down thousands of acres of wildlife, destroyed homes, created pollution, and endangered lots of people.
- xzel 4y agoI think a lot of older school Americans have a real justice boner and justice in their mind is often eye for an eye. At least this feels true about the older, right-leaning generation I know. Justice in the US, traditionally, seems a lot more punitive than rehabilitory. I think that has fizzled off in the more recent generation and some policy is already starting to reflect that, i.e. marijuana laws and releasing people for that crime early. Source: Am American.
- lamontcg 4y agoGo check out some of the reddit forums on people doing stupid things and watch the "kids" pray for idiots to earn their darwin award along with calls for vigilante justice.
- WillPostForFood 4y agoMillennials love justice just as much, it’s just that it manifests as a Twitter mob instead of a court.
- salawat 4y agoThis is exactly what I worry about. Part of Liberty is actually using it. It's where the whole "home of the brave" thing comes in. When people are by default free to do things... Yeah. You have to be willing to keep an eye out. And I do not ascribe to the school of thought that anything that creates a condition of "unsafety" should necessarily be controlled until it becomes an established regular thing that cannot be ignored. That's a road we already know ends up with no one having any room to do anything because you can dlways find someone who'll get their knickers in a twist about it. The shocking part here is the video evidence of just not giving a damn, and not being genuinely "in the task" of being a responsible airman.
- lovich 4y agoThe lack of harm was luck. The same way I would judge someone harshly for firing a gun down a crowded street even if they managed to not hit anyone, I would judge someone who recklessly endangers others like this person causing a plane crash in a wildfire zone.
- beeboop 4y agoThe guy was wreckless and stupid, it seems a bit much to wish harm upon him and hoping that he might possibly die - even if somewhat tongue in cheek.
- FabHK 4y agoHe was certainly not without a wreck.