Well, here I go, wading in and windmill-slapping all the way...
I said clearly that I didnt want to do any disrespect against the dead car racer, but that I found both surpising and sad that ,immediatly after a racing pilot has died, someone posts about it on the forums, while during one month noone had done a simgle mention to the El salvador quakes.
And what point do you think you would hope to accomplish? We are talking a mere few hours after the event, some had just heard the news and were trying to digest it. Some people were genuinely grieved by the loss and you couldn't allow a respectful amount of time to pass before pulling the topic way off course. Worse, you added an element of guilt on top of it all.
I dont say a thing against posting a thread on a dead legend, I say that is sad that if a sports master dies, here people immediatly post a thread, but when hundreds of thousand poor lifes are lost, and millions of poor people are homeless noone says a thing about it.I stand viewing it as a sad thing.
Let's not forget the "it's shameful" comment, or does that not count as "one thing"? I don't care if you like Earnhardt or don't, but you can't allow others to discuss their thoughts without laying a guilt trip on it? For that matter, is it ever allowable to discuss a single person's death, in your view?
IMO is food for thought what people find is a more important topic to post about. Someone said-and is right- that people stay watching about this kind of things in TV, but change channel when the quakes are reported. THAT is what I find sad, because THAT is the attitude I have seen here.
That is an incredibly ignorant statement. You want to browbeat people over an attitude you feel is wrong- you have no right to tell these people their grief is misplaced or inappropriate. Like your arguments about which planes are valid or not, which style of play should be conducted, etc. it is all Ram-centric.
And even more, no thread will ever be like a funeral. So that is comparing oranges with apples.
Wrong again. This was the equivalent of an "Internet Visitation". We are all spread all over this world, there is no way we could ever conceivably gather to mourn a death. The closest approximation is this forum. You were simply out of line.
