I read the article. Is this guy familiar with the
expression "never speak ill of the dead"?
Beyond that, the article is in pretty poor taste. And
it's obvious the author knows jack $#!+ about
motorsports. What does he want, a perfectly risk-free
world? Guess he'd better not take the bus, cross a
street, order a hamburger from Jack-in-the-Box, plug
in a lamp, walk outside during a thunderstorm, or
anything else that could possibly end his life. For
that matter, maybe he should become homeless, since
most accidents occur in the home ;)
I thought the motorsports "writers" in my local paper
(SJ Murky Snooze) were clueless, but this guy tops
them all. At least they didn't do a hatchet job on
CART when Greg Moore died at Fontana.
--- Mike Healy <mapman1138@interaccess.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
> To: team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 6:30 PM
> Subject: RE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
>
>
> > Call me nuts, but I can appreciate the author's
> point of view.
> >
> > Katie
>
> You're nuts! ;o)
>
> I can appreciate the author's POV, too - but until
> somebody can show me how
> to judge when risk is acceptable and when it's not,
> I'm gonna call the
> article what it is: Useless Hand-Wringing. Death
> happens - get over it.
>
> Others have already alluded to how many good things
> in life involve risks,
> so I won't go into that. All I'm gonna say is that
> the boy died doing
> something that he probably enjoyed, which is more
> than most of us will be
> able to say. Were the author to have his way, we'd
> all die in hospital beds,
> hooked up to millions of dollars in life-support
> equipment. Is that really
> what we want?
>
>
> Mike "I'll judge what risk is acceptable is to me,
> not Ralph Nader" Healy
>
=====
Scot Zediker
mx5_1991@yahoo.com
San Jose, CA
"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
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