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hal wrote:
This is the first para of the article I read:
Megan Scraper was standing at the edge of the scenic but treacherous Shannon Falls when she slipped into a swift-moving current, authorities in British Columbia said. Her companions, Ryker Gamble and Alexey Lyakh, dove in to save her, but none of them were a match for the power of the rapids. Moments later, all three were sucked beneath the water’s surface, then plummeted over a 100-foot waterfall.
They seem worthy of my sympathy. But news sources know that young kids doing outrageous things gets we oldsters all riled up and click happy.
Here’s the second paragraph of the article:
Their deaths on July 3 are a tragedy, but one that has been shrouded in controversy, because the three were associated with High on Life. Members of the group travel to exotic locales and, at times, vault guardrails and ignore warning signs as they dive from cliffs and swing through canyons — always with cameras recording for YouTube and Instagram followers.
They appear to have brought this upon themselves. It is sad they paid the ultimate price for their tomfoolery, but they knew better (or should have) and decided to act anyway. As others have said, it is hard to muster much sympathy for what happened to them.
Sympathy for loved ones left behind, OTOH, is a different story.
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Two of them dove into the water to save their fallen friend, that seems pretty admirable to me.
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I think all 7 billion people on the planet should be allowed to ignore whatever rules are in place to protect the environment and people from themselves s they can get a few extra Youtube subscribers.
It's only fair, right?
My condolences go to their families who probably cared for them more than they cared for sensible rules.
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hal wrote:
They seem worthy of my sympathy. But news sources know that young kids doing outrageous things gets we oldsters all riled up and click happy.
Crux of it; pandering to the crotchety curmudgeon demographic gets them clicks. Each will have an opinion on these darn kids and the risks they took.
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Two of them dove into the water to save their fallen friend, that seems pretty admirable to me.
Indeed. Ignored their own safety to try to help a friend.
Also -- she *slipped*. She did not dive into the pool thinking she could defeat it with her magical youth powers.
Did she put herself in harm's way? Maybe.
How many people get a little too close to the edge at the Grand Canyon? Do they all go plummeting over? And the ones that do, do they deserve it?
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We forget we were that age once and things we did carried no lesser consequences....
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Did she put herself in harm's way? Maybe.
I would have to answer yes to this, not maybe. I don't believe in denying people the ability to put themselves in very dangerous situations, my only concern is when they potentially bring harm to others, and that's often a tough call to make.
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Lew Zealand wrote:
I think all 7 billion people on the planet should be allowed to ignore whatever rules are in place to protect the environment and people from themselves s they can get a few extra Youtube subscribers.
It's only fair, right?
My condolences go to their families who probably cared for them more than they cared for sensible rules.
Rules? The best I can tell is, they hiked up a super popular trail. They weren't filming anything. She got too close to the water and slipped.
There is one report, endlessly duplicated verbatim, which says they were swimming in the freezing water above the falls. I can't find anything like the actual source of that. It's somebody saying the RCMP said that BC Ambulance said that a caller said three people were swimming. Maybe they had been, though that doesn't line up with witness accounts. There are reports of a 911 call about three people going into the water above Shannon Falls, which would have been after she had slipped and her friends tried to rescue her.
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Each will have an opinion on these darn kids and the risks they took.
I still get that on occasion, and I'm no kid:
People will shake their head or volunteer in passing— 'Ya know they're called murder-cycles', for no damn reason whatsoever.
That action is code for 'if something bad happens you're asking for it and it's you're own fault and I don't care'. They don't honestly care about the other person, but it makes them feel superior saying it.
I see examples of that mentality all the time. Then I smh.
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RAMd®d wrote:
They don't honestly care about the other person, but it makes them feel superior saying it.
This is universally applicable to almost any comment on the internet/made in public. It's isn't even about being right, it's about making me feel better.
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RAMd®d wrote:
Each will have an opinion on these darn kids and the risks they took.
I still get that on occasion, and I'm no kid:
People will shake their head or volunteer in passing— 'Ya know they're called murder-cycles', for no damn reason whatsoever.
That action is code for 'if something bad happens you're asking for it and it's you're own fault and I don't care'. They don't honestly care about the other person, but it makes them feel superior saying it.
I see examples of that mentality all the time. Then I smh.
Yep, me too. People feel compelled to come up to me and tell me about their cousin/neighbor/whatever that got killed on a bike, as though that proved I was a self-destructive fool for riding a motorcycle...when in fact it’s foolish, inattentive car drivers that are most likely to cause my demise.
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