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Orrex

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5. Maybe, but that's not quite the spirit of the thing

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:58 PM

Apr 2016

He may have done a dumb thing (assuming the claim is true), but he didn't zap himself in the process of committing the stupidity. That's the key. A retaliatory act by another person is outside of the parameters.

For instance, if I don't wear a seatbelt while four-wheeling in my Jeep, that's stupid, and if I castrated myself in the process, then that would be a Darwin. But if I get home and my pal beats me to death for my stupidity, then that's not a Darwin.

IMO, of course.

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Does he get a Darwin Award? KamaAina Apr 2016 #1

I don't think a deliberate act by another person qualifies Orrex Apr 2016 #2

But he provoked the deliberate act by having an affair KamaAina Apr 2016 #4

Maybe, but that's not quite the spirit of the thing Orrex Apr 2016 #5

He erred by marrying a psycho. NobodyHere Apr 2016 #6

Hopefully she gets a long sentence as befitting a violent psycho MowCowWhoHow III Apr 2016 #3