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**hernkingAnank** · 01-28-2009, 11:24 AM

Anyone who thinks Free-Riders on a utility is ok should be slapped. Everything costs money, pay your bills or you lose service, end of story, nothing else matters.

I wonder if you were standing face to face with a WW2 vet, on the soil he fought for you to be standing on, if you would have the guts to say that. It's that sterile, cosmeticised and cold black and white approach you exemplified and that modern society exerts which signifies the distinct lack of respect I am talking about.

I agree that there are rules in which people must obey, and I also understand how this man broke the rules and the appropriate action was taken... but your lack of sensitivity towards the situation is testament to my point. Has society moulded everyone so well that people don't question things like this anymore? Are there no exceptions to the rule? And are people so self-centered they they would rather prove their point instead of stopping to think about the life that this man led before it was taken away from him? Is it somehow cool to show a lack of sensitivity towards any form of tragedy becuase it makes one seem worldly (despite never actually experiencing life and death to the extent of the man in question)?

So many people have become de-sensitised to such things that the only time they could every imagine showing compassion would be if it happened to someone close to them... your own grandfather perhaps?

A lot of you are also missing the point, I (nor the orignal poster) are not supporting his actions.... we are simply expressing our disgust for the lack of sympathy towards the situation, and how people can be so blasay about the death of a man who risked his life to save his country, and lost it becuase of a black and white descision which exemplifies the modern lack of understanding of what these men and women actually fought for.

It's like if anyone here devoted their life to curing cancer, and then when they got older they were refused treatment for the exact same thing they spent their life curing, and died becuase they did not fill in the form correctly. Yes there are rules... but sometimes it is just plain ignorant to assume that all consequences are equal.

01-28-2009, 11:24 AM	#27
hernkingAnank Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	Anyone who thinks Free-Riders on a utility is ok should be slapped. Everything costs money, pay your bills or you lose service, end of story, nothing else matters. I wonder if you were standing face to face with a WW2 vet, on the soil he fought for you to be standing on, if you would have the guts to say that. It's that sterile, cosmeticised and cold black and white approach you exemplified and that modern society exerts which signifies the distinct lack of respect I am talking about. I agree that there are rules in which people must obey, and I also understand how this man broke the rules and the appropriate action was taken... but your lack of sensitivity towards the situation is testament to my point. Has society moulded everyone so well that people don't question things like this anymore? Are there no exceptions to the rule? And are people so self-centered they they would rather prove their point instead of stopping to think about the life that this man led before it was taken away from him? Is it somehow cool to show a lack of sensitivity towards any form of tragedy becuase it makes one seem worldly (despite never actually experiencing life and death to the extent of the man in question)? So many people have become de-sensitised to such things that the only time they could every imagine showing compassion would be if it happened to someone close to them... your own grandfather perhaps? A lot of you are also missing the point, I (nor the orignal poster) are not supporting his actions.... we are simply expressing our disgust for the lack of sympathy towards the situation, and how people can be so blasay about the death of a man who risked his life to save his country, and lost it becuase of a black and white descision which exemplifies the modern lack of understanding of what these men and women actually fought for. It's like if anyone here devoted their life to curing cancer, and then when they got older they were refused treatment for the exact same thing they spent their life curing, and died becuase they did not fill in the form correctly. Yes there are rules... but sometimes it is just plain ignorant to assume that all consequences are equal.
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