Living Like a Cripple

[Erthona]

You know, I see people killing themselves with booze, anorexia, et al. and I struggle with that. In a free society does a person have the right to destroy themselves. It's the struggle between right and responsibility, because in a free society we also have certain responsibilities. Out of 7 billion people there are going to be a few nut jobs, and a lot of the time you don't know they're nut jobs until they actually do what they say they are going to do. Up until then it was just a fantasy. The person playing along maybe never think it will go that far, and when it does they go into shock and can't act. The time to act would have been way before, but he's a kid, he doesn't know that. Not that much different from when adults see atrocities they don't stop. It's easy when you're on the outside looking in to say, "Why didn't you do something?" But most people, if put in he same situation, would do the exact same thing. I suppose it's sad, certainly it's sad for the parents of the children who were killed, but in someways it's just life. The government likes to posture and say they will do something to make sure this doesn't happen again, but it will. It's already been proven from the "war on terror" that if someone is willing to die to kill people, then people will die. Not much different from these last lines really:

"If you're going to kill yourself,
you might as well take somebody with you,
take some people that people would actually miss.
Nobody would miss you, I wouldn't;"

Dale