re: #805 researchok

Eye yeah fal a yokel
re: #182 tradewind

Gawdamighty, I hope that the simplest explanation is the correct one… that he meant ’ don’t ignore warnings of danger and carry on as if there were none’. I would really, really hate to think that he meant to attach any disdainful or mean-spirited motive to such a tragedy. If he misspoke, it sucks, and I would expect he would acknowledge it. Otherwise, damn.
In any case, it doesn’t sound like a well thought out thing to say no matter what.

Beck was right as to the merits of what is smart and what is dumb. It’s dumb to sit there waiting to get hit. It’s dumb to mutely bow to a fate you don’t have to suffer, simply through inertia and an unwillingness to face some brutal facts.

It’s dumb to sit there in a hijacked plane and not fight. Win or lose, you die. But if you fight, at least you die fighting and just maybe you save a few thousand other people.

Decent, intelligent-under-normal circumstances people do dumb things all too often. We have to steel ourselves ahead of time to recognize when circumstances are decidedly not normal, so that we can act on our healthy and rational fear and face danger and probable death with a clear head and resolute will.

Making this point is not an insult to the memory of those who hadn’t so steeled themselves. It’s just a point to remember. When the chips are down and it’s do or die time, DO SOMETHING.