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203. Hey people - the kid's dead. D.E.A.D. He doesn't give a fuck about your empathy, or lack thereof.

No amount of sadness for his family, or hand-wringing, or wailing, or gnashing of teeth is going to change the fact that he did a mightily stupid thing and paid the ultimate price for it. Saying he's a Darwin Award winner doesn't make one a bad person any more than overflowing with empathy, sympathy, grief or whatever makes one a good person.

What he did isn't going to deter other teens from acting stupidly, nor is it going to increase the possibility of same. I'd wager a fair amount that few teenagers living more than 500 miles away even heard of the tragedy. 99.99% of teenagers do stupid things. Some of them get unlucky, and dead. Trying to change that is a fool's errand.

Yes, it's a tragedy, but let's not get lost patting ourselves on the back for being empathetic; no one cares what DU thinks but DUers.

I've read some pretty rabid shit here over the years when someone hated by DUers has died. I've read some pretty rabid shit here in the form of hopes for different types of illness up to and including cancer for people hated by DUers. For that reason, I find the hand-wringing over someone's comment re: Darwin Awards funny as hell. I know one thing to be a certainty though: The dead kid doesn't give a fuck what DUers say or don't.