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Re: ROW - how perspectives can change
Author: Castlebridge
Date: 11-06-2009 - 19:30
Dragoman Wrote:
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> Lamphier -
>
> Thank you for sharing some REAL, personal insight,
> and I am sorry for the pain you must now be
> feeling.
>
> I find it very interesting that when you have
> actually KNOWN and cared about someone who has
> been involved in such an "incident", as you and I
> have, you tend to be less quick to pontificate and
> expound truisms about "fault" and the usefulness
> -- or uselessness -- of fences and gates.
>
> Saying "Just stay off the tracks!" is like "Just
> say No!" in the drug "war". It just isn't enough.
> Can't we come up with something more effective,
> more life-giving?
>
> The point is, living persons, who had family who
> loved them, are now dead.
>
> Can't we treat those who have died, and their
> families, REGARDLESS OF "FAULT", with some degree
> of COMPASSION and RESPECT?
In the village where I once lived, the trolley company had a sign at each entrance to its off-street ROWs that said something to the effect "PRIVATE WAY FOR TRAINS/Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted To The Fullest Extent Of The Law". That was sufficiently strong to overcome my desire to venture into their ROW in any way other than being a passenger.
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> Lamphier -
>
> Thank you for sharing some REAL, personal insight,
> and I am sorry for the pain you must now be
> feeling.
>
> I find it very interesting that when you have
> actually KNOWN and cared about someone who has
> been involved in such an "incident", as you and I
> have, you tend to be less quick to pontificate and
> expound truisms about "fault" and the usefulness
> -- or uselessness -- of fences and gates.
>
> Saying "Just stay off the tracks!" is like "Just
> say No!" in the drug "war". It just isn't enough.
> Can't we come up with something more effective,
> more life-giving?
>
> The point is, living persons, who had family who
> loved them, are now dead.
>
> Can't we treat those who have died, and their
> families, REGARDLESS OF "FAULT", with some degree
> of COMPASSION and RESPECT?
In the village where I once lived, the trolley company had a sign at each entrance to its off-street ROWs that said something to the effect "PRIVATE WAY FOR TRAINS/Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted To The Fullest Extent Of The Law". That was sufficiently strong to overcome my desire to venture into their ROW in any way other than being a passenger.
