[HitmanLV]

It took about two minutes from some morally smug type to come along and tell me that my sister had lived long enough and she didn't need those embyonic stem cells.

She didn't bother waiting for me to clarify that they were HER stem cells, but she was FINE with my sister dying.

Pretty telling, IMO.

Sounds about right.  As I have said many times, on FR 'being principled' is sometimes shorthand for 'turn your brain off at the door.'  :-)

[Howlin]

I got a big hint about what those people were like right that moment.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It's a political page, not a self-help or counselling board.

You have to expect that if you post about an issue, people are going to comment on the politics of it. Sure, the smart ones would recognize a particular post wasn't that kind of post, and ignore it, but not everybody is very astute.

For example, a month or so ago there was a post about a child who was killed crossing a busy highway on a field trip. The post was a news article, that suggested a suit might be filed and that the school system wasn't giving information and might be culpable.

So of course some freepers chimed in about personal responsibility and how kids should be smart enough and some made their stupid "darwin" comments.

None of those posters noticed that the poster was actually the parent of the child who had been killed -- you had to read the 1st post comment very carefully to pick that up.

Some would argue that the truth is the truth regardless of who it hurts, and I won't fault them for it on a political board like this, although I would counsel them to have some feeling.

But if you are looking for a hug-fest, this probably isn't the place for it.