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I read today that the drag car 2008 Lucas Oil Super Nationals will continue to honor the death of a driver killed in a race last night. Events, ball games, races, concerts, etc. always choose to continue to honor the death of a person involved in the event. The reason they give is that, “She would have wanted it this way” or “It is best way we can honor him.” Event promoters never cancel an event to honor the person. Why don’t event promoters just tell the truth? They are continuing with the event because it they would lose tons of money and anger the competitors and spectators if they canceled it. No matter how badly the spectators may feel about the death, they are not willing to give up seeing the event. Saying the event is continuing to honor the person just gives the spectators a way to easy their collective conscious. It only when so many people are killed at an event that it would be unconscionable to continue that an event is canceled; no matter if those killed would have wanted the event to continue.

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I get sick of hearing the media blather on and on about how resilient, tough, courageous, etc. the people are in some area that has been hit by a natural disaster. To say the people in one place are this way means that there must be some place were the people are not this way. The media never point out any place where the people are wimpy, weak, cowards in the face of calamity. If there is no such place, then it must be that people in general are resilient, tough, courageous, etc. This being the case, why make such a big deal about what is basically human nature. If anything, the media ought to point out how stupid some people are to live in dangerous areas and how utterly stupid it is to rebuild in the same areas where the odds are that at some future date they will be called upon again to be resilient, tough, courageous, etc.