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Edited on Wed May-09-07 04:08 PM by enki23
plenty of what he wrote was moving, and sad. how in hell did you manage to latch onto the one little, probably throw-away line that was most emphatically *wrong*?
i've plenty of sympathy for the kid's unhappy plight, but i happen to believe he does, in fact, "deserve" to live a decent life, for any definition of "deserve" that fucking matters. that's why i'm in the midst of dedicating my life to do my small part to try to minimize this particular kind of injustice. the world is *not* fair. the young do not *deserve* to die, much less from cancer. anyone who says otherwise is either an asshole, probably an overly-religious asshole, or deluding themselves. this kid falls into the "deluding themselves" category. and if that works for him, then good. i hope his rationalization brings him comfort.
there are plenty of others out there, however, who truly "get it." they realize they deserve to live. they fucking know it. and they're goddamned right.
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