Deserved to die?
Life's hard. It's harder when you're stupid. And briefer when you tempt fate. And bright or dumb, it's span is finite. Tempus Fugit. Memento Mori. Rachel Corrie's case calls to mind the young man challenging the tanks in Tian an Men Square ... with two crucial differences. 1) He survived; she did not. 2) He was opposing tyranny, oppression, and terrorism; she was supporting them. We account him a hero, her a goat. Why? Not because of what they did, but why they did it. He 'deserved' to die just as much as she did. He just got lucky. Her luck ran out. We often, particularly on this forum, make the ignorant and arrogant mistake of branding all our opponents 'cowards'. Whatever motivated Rachel Corrie, it was not cowardice. Call it courage, or at least fanaticism ... I find it tragic that such selfless devotion to principle and percieved duty was wasted on such a worthless and evil cause.
Deserved to die?