observer Wrote:
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> Dragoman,
>
> I know that someone close to you was involved in
> an incident on the tracks. Once you accept that it
> happened because he wasn't aware of the dangers of
> his actions which was most likely due to the fact
> that no one took the time to explain to that
> person of those dangers, you may actually lose the
> need to defend every person killing while doing
> something stupid.
>
> I agree that we all do stupid things, if some of
> use end up dead or injured because of it, we will
> have no one but ourselves to blame. In other
> words, we don't need to feel sorry for anyone who
> ends up with results like this.

Thank you, observer.

And, to be clear, I am not trying to defend the tagger, nor anyone else who does something stupid (or illegal or disrespectful of others).

All I am saying is that I can still feel sorry for the guy killed (and his family and the train crew), even when he caused the situation and he has no one else to blame but himself. My compassion is not tied to blame or fault. IMHO it is callus to say "Good Riddance, he deserved to die" about any human being. And yes, this feeling arises, at least in part, from having lost someone due to his own stupid choices -- he was to blame, and I can still feel sorry about it.