So its ok to say you are glad someone is critically injured

[Yorkiegirl]

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Richard is now stable.

Praying hard x

Don't be silly twinset - you haven't got a heart of stone!!! Pah!

Those of us who cannot imagine it are not emotional cripples, just people who have been lucky enough not to lose someone close to us and to experience that grief.

I've not suffered a close loss since I was 16 (my grandfathers both died within 4 months of each other) but still I would not make a comment like MD. It is about walking in someone elses shoes, adn we should all make the effort to do that.

Praying for you and your girls, YG.

Of course wishing someone dead is horrid and I am sure that MD realises that.

Ia have lost people who are close to me, on person I grieve for intensly many years later. I suppose I am seeing it from a different angle in that having been through the pain of loosing th e person closest to me who was the centre of my world I find it hard to link that with someone dying whom I don't know. Does not mean I can't have some insight into the pain his family are in or that I don't hope he recovers.

sorry that was awful typing.

I think the comment made on the other thread was crass and childish. There have been lots of comments in the past few days of a similar nature, and posters who complain about their inappropriateness have been told that this is a free country, and we have freedom of speech. That is true of course, and thank god we do. But I also think that there comes a responsibility with that freedom - a responsibility to respect others, and to consider the effect that your comments will have on others. There is a responsibility not to make comments that are deliberately provocative simply to gain attention or notoriety. Of course we are all free to post what we want, but in an open forum like this it means that we have to accept that others will judge us accordingly.

Just read the other thread then my next thought was. Isnt that how terrorism begins - someone hates what something stands for and is happy to see it dead. also the racist tones. can only think that that moondog is under an immense amount of stress at the moment and just feels the need to lash out.