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Thanks for your clarification and insight:) Being born in 1981, I'll write my previous comment off to generational ignorance. I appreciate your thorough and t

• patio11 17y ago
  I was born in 1982, you geezer.
• jacquesm 17y ago
  The year you were born in can not be an excuse for ignorance on any level. Yesterday it was 'the holocaust was before my time', now this. There are history books aplenty out there.
  • unalone 17y ago
    I wasn't aware, Jacques, that it was our responsibility to be aware of every tragedy and every death in the history of mankind. I could spend years studying every genocide, every cruelty, going on in the world today, all of which are worse than a single drunk driving accident. I could spend years and plummet into the darker parts of the world. I choose not to. Not knowing who Ted Kennedy is an ignorance that can surely be forgiven.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      Absolutely. But if someone insists on having a strong opinion on something without studying it and then uses the 'before I was born' argument to be excused I think that's pretty weak. The fact that a man has died is no reason to drop objectivity about that man. There was plenty good about Ted Kennedy, there was plenty of bad stuff too. Like almost any human being alive today, I'd imagine. Some of the stuff he did was at best misguided, at worst criminal neglect. He seemed to have been more protective of his career than of the life of a human being when it mattered most. I know politicians are 'survival masters' but that particular incident should have cost him his career and some jail time at a minimum. What kind of an example does that set for 'lesser' mortals ?