I believe it more or less stems from the fact there are many families who will mourn for the rest of their lives all thanks to drunk drivers.
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RIP Ryan Dunn
- Thread starter Rusty Chainsaw
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I believe it more or less stems from the fact there are many families who will mourn for the rest of their lives all thanks to drunk drivers.
Fact is that either way, a person lies dead and someone will mourn for them.
He also killed another familiy's loved one, where's your thoughts there? Imagine he had run another vehicle off the road, and the ones in that vehicle, and their families and friends???
Insensitive? He wasn't very sensitive to the family of the passenger in his car, was he? The PC attitude is unfathomable to me - this guy bought his ticket out, and punched it with vigor.
I refuse to feel one whit of sorry for this waste of human potential. I also refuse to feel one bit of remorse for my position on this matter - again, a close friend was MURDERED by a drunken idiot that walked away scott free, and you want me to feel badly for the family of an idiot that lived up (more appropriately DOWN) to the name of the asinine TV show/movie series he was a part of?
(MT, sorry, and I reiterate that I hope your brother, and EVERY OTHER person of this ilk can somehow come to grips with this problem, and not continue down such a path.)
No good 'what if'ing. You could do that until Armaggedon comes and it's not going to make one bit of a difference. Fact is that he killed himself and his passenger. That is what happened here in the real world.
Insensitive? He wasn't very sensitive to the family of the passenger in his car, was he? The PC attitude is unfathomable to me - this guy bought his ticket out, and punched it with vigor.
I refuse to feel one whit of sorry for this waste of human potential. I also refuse to feel one bit of remorse for my position on this matter - again, a close friend was MURDERED by a drunken idiot that walked away scott free, and you want me to feel badly for the family of an idiot that lived up (more appropriately DOWN) to the name of the asinine TV show/movie series he was a part of?
He was still a human being like anyone else. And his family will undergo the same grief and pain of this loss just as much as anyone else.
There is always the axiom to "never speak ill of the dead", regardless of the stupidity they exhibit while living. He made some decisions, and he paid the consequences for those decisions, earning his death fair and square. Ryan Dunn did not value his own life enough to drive home sober (or the life of his passenger, for that matter). Perhaps it would have done him well to consider what he meant to his family and friends before he decided to pop off and engage in self-destructive behavior.
Which makes it even worse - this idiot pops off and kills himself and a passenger. His family and friends are stuck with a loss, and as you mentioned, will remember this as long as they live. I'd say that is a pretty ******* thing for Dunn to leave to his family and friends - a lifetime of grief resulting from his actions and his marked disregard for his own life (and that of his passenger).
The death of one is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. I don't feel sorry for people that commit suicide.
What about the death of a delicious Mako shark at the hands of a couple of fat bankers? Do you feel sorry for them?
You are what you is.
BTW Gard...no sweat, seriously. I got no problems with the way people will feel about this guy. I posted my perspective on it, and that was all I wanted to do
Unfortunately both the passenger and Dunn made a single decision which cost them both their lives as a consequence. Yes, they both earned their deaths as a result of that decision.
Exactly.
Nope. I also don't think hunting and fishing are sports. You can't call something a sport, when your opponent doesn't know they are playing
BTW Gard...no sweat, seriously. I got no problems with the way people will feel about this guy. I posted my perspective on it, and that was all I wanted to do
Good man, I don't want you to think I'm a complete @$$...
...I can't be, I'm missing a few parts...
That shark was way cooler than that jackass.
.......all right, that was lame. Sorry.
Sharks are always cooler than anything ever, ever. Especially Mako. They were always my favorite
Man, Bam was completely distraught...
YouTube - ‪Bam Margera's Reaction to Ryan Dunn's death‬‏
I understand that some people feel no sympathy because of the way Dunn died, but he obviously meant something to someone, and I just feel he deserves at least a shred of respect. I don't disagree that it was a stupid way to go, but, as someone mentioned before, he did have family and people who cared about him. RIP Dunn
YouTube - ‪Bam Margera's Reaction to Ryan Dunn's death‬‏
I understand that some people feel no sympathy because of the way Dunn died, but he obviously meant something to someone, and I just feel he deserves at least a shred of respect. I don't disagree that it was a stupid way to go, but, as someone mentioned before, he did have family and people who cared about him. RIP Dunn
It's the common internet message board trend of piling on in a thread to go along with the majority. There is a term for it, but it escapes me right now.
The first page or so was about enough for this thread. Now you just keep getting more people posting to say "yeah, he is a jerk and he deserves to be dead". If one of these threads was about someone a person knew, I highly doubt they'd be in here saying that. I know I wouldn't.
-Mike
He also killed another familiy's loved one, where's your thoughts there? Imagine he had run another vehicle off the road, and the ones in that vehicle, and their families and friends???
Insensitive? He wasn't very sensitive to the family of the passenger in his car, was he? The PC attitude is unfathomable to me - this guy bought his ticket out, and punched it with vigor.
I refuse to feel one whit of sorry for this waste of human potential. I also refuse to feel one bit of remorse for my position on this matter - again, a close friend was MURDERED by a drunken idiot that walked away scott free, and you want me to feel badly for the family of an idiot that lived up (more appropriately DOWN) to the name of the asinine TV show/movie series he was a part of?
(MT, sorry, and I reiterate that I hope your brother, and EVERY OTHER person of this ilk can somehow come to grips with this problem, and not continue down such a path.)
+1
I decided to keep my opinion to myself until the autopsy was released, and once I heard alcohol was definitely involved I lost all sympathy I had towards the guy's death. I'll mourn for the passenger; not for him.
