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Old 06-21-2011, 11:47 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
I don't see what makes it so difficult to do both. This isn't directed at you, rather other people in the thread, but it's always puzzled me why people seem to be incapable of having sympathy for the loss of someone's life even if the circumstances were foolish. I mean we aren't animals, there's an ability to have compassion while still condemning the action.
While I agree with you in the context of drug overdoses and suicides, I think the reaction that many people have to drunk driving deaths is, "good - that's one less drunk driver putting innocent lives at risk."

At least, as someone whose parents were killed by a drunk driver, that's my reaction.
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