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Originally posted by starang21
personally, my opinion on this subject is that i could care less what happens to the greek community, even me being greek myself. my concern is the men that died. the REAL issue at hand. i don't really concern myself with things that don't really need it. and if you had read my posts, i was blasting the thread's title, not the thread. the rest of the thread was an article about it. there is no point that was missed, my question is this, is this the most important point out there? probably not.
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You weren't blasting just the thread's title, starang21. Calling a group of people "idiots" had nothing to do with just a title. So please don't act as if you were ONLY talking about a title.
We're
all concerned that men died. And we're
all sorry they died. You act as if you are the only person on GC to show any compassion whatsoever, almost as if you feel a moral superiority over the rest of GC, and that's simply not the case.
A person can feel sympathy about something while still discussing other issues. And there is a lot more that can be discussed about that article in addition to the fact that it involved loss of life. Doing so doesn't detract from the important fact that people died.
When you think about World War 2, do you only concern yourself with the fact that people died during it? If so, you're missing out on a lot of important issues that come with those deaths. The same goes for this article.
It's not being insensitive to look beyond the obvious (in this case, that two young men perished in a tragic manner) and talk about other, underlying, more subtle issues. Talking about the other issues isn't to say that they are more "important" than the deaths themselves, but they are still worth discussing.
This was a risk management issue for the college campus, and that's why hoosier placed the article in our Risk Management forum. There's nothing wrong with bringing something to our attention and talking about it -- and that's what hoosier did. Granted the title of the thread got our attention in a negative way, but I honestly don't think hoosier meant any disrespect when he typed it. It could have been better thought-out, but that's a dead issue now because it can't be changed. I think pretty much everyone who has responded in this thread has said "yeah, that was a really poor choice of words... it came off as insensitive." What more do you want? Blood??? :confused:
As far as not being concerned about the Greek system, I'm truly sorry that you feel that way. I'm sorry that you don't understand the importance of talking about risk management issues in this day and age, or feel that such issues are important. I have a great love for Greek Life, which is why I feel that such things need to be discussed. I'm glad that your feelings about the Greek system are not shared by the majority of Greeks. The apathy is quite saddening.
