Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by shoeihell@yahoo.com (A) on October 27, 2007 at 09:18:26

In Reply to: RE: Rather, my CA friend, you should. posted by tinear on October 13, 2007 at 13:58:39

The problem with that viewpoint is that you are placing a judgment 'value' on a young man's life. They tried that in England for centuries, it was called the 'class system'. Everybody has to find their way, regardless of their background-even rich kids.

You can have empathy for the young men & women dying in the sandbox and elsewhere in service to this country, while at the same time have empathy for a lost young man who came from a rich family. Any boy/young man that is so lost and self-indulgent that he recklessly forfeits his life is a cause to examine our very social structure-just like your example of a young man dying face down in the ghetto, in a pool of his own blood. They are all a tragic waste of an amazing resource-youth. Indeed, we're a nation of resources, we admire youth & beauty above all else and yet their voices are lost amongst us. It's a double standard of tragic proportion.

Maybe if the 'rich kid' had survived and gained from the wealth of his life experiences (or had an older mentor), he could have grown up humble enough to give back tirelessly-perhaps with the resources his family had. To imply that he was just a rich kid and deserved what he got is just self-serving and petty.

Kevin