Why all this sympathy ?

[goldstone]

I cannot understand why we have all this sympathy for famous people who come unstuck and either injure or kill themselves doing mindblowingly stupid stunts.

Firstly we have a man who jumps on the backs of crocadiles and go`s within a metre of one with his new born baby in his arms.He antagonises every creature he comes into contact with and then people seem surprised when one of these creatures hits out and he comes a crocker.

Then I hear on the radio people ringing in saying how unfortunate and unlucky Richard Hammond was to crash his vehicle whilst driving it at nearly 3 hundred miles an hour.

What a shock ''

Well said. Why the hell should we waste our sympathy on people who bring their injuries on themselves?

 

[NMH]

Re: Re: Why all this sympathy ?

Well said. Why the hell should we waste our sympathy on people who bring their injuries on themselves?

ooow, I dunno, except that maybe we have the capacity to sympathise with people who DON'T bring injuries on themselves, AAAAND, still have a smidgen of compunction that we afford to people who fail in their efforts to impress us for entertainment?

I doubt that this victim is begging for you to sympathise though, so don't lose any sleep there now.

 

[NMH]

Funny, I heard from some football fan that Brighton and Hove Albion deserved no new ground, or sympathy for our situations because we brought our circumstances upon ourselves.
That's not nice of them, is it goldstone?

 

[Safeway]

He encourages driving at over the speed limit and glorifies in his doing so. His colleague is now in hospital becasue of driving a vehicle at excessive speed.

So now Clarkson's to BLAME for Hammond's crash?