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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
And yet, the worse of two evils is still roaming the streets. The woman who pushed him should be the one punished for an act like that, not a young man who, although obviously had his troubles, probably never committed a criminal act in his lifetime to that extent.
He maybe a punk after all, but he's still a victim.
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Don't get me wrong, I definitely think it's sad that someone so young died. I just find it interesting that the news will bend the perception of someone to pluck at our heart strings. Maybe I am just jaded, and this may piss some people off, but not everyone that is under 18 and dies is an angel. I am, of course, not happy that he died, far from it. I do feel remorse for him, anyone that dies so young has lots of time to turn their life around (if they are going down a bad path). But if an older drug dealer died in a similar situation chances are the headline would read "drug deal gone bad on train platform, drug peddler dead" not "tragedy on train platform." All I am getting at is there seems to be a line with age and death where at one age it's a sin to anything negative about them and another age where it's perfectly fine to rake them over the coals. I am not trying to "demean the deceased" here.