Posted
7/02/2002 10:22:00 PM
by Douglas
Mom got on the plane for Paris today, so I've been keeping up with the Russian airline crash all day.
Probe begins on midair collision
What I don't understand is why every news report has said something like this:
German, Russian and U.S. investigators were en route Tuesday to the scene of Monday night's midair plane collision that killed 71 people, many of them of Russian teen-agers.
"These children were full of hope and full of joy on their way to a holiday," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday.
It's horrible that a plane load of people crash into a lake, but are we to believe that because they were teenagers their lives were somehow more valuable, or that if they had been 3 or 4 years older thier lives would be
less valuable? Would adults
not be full of hope and joy?
The great Bill Hicks said it best:
People reach a certain age and suddenly they come off your love list? You either love all people of all ages or shut the hell up.
Or something like that