I’m not trying to flame you, I just don’t quite get the attitude.
I think there are degrees of sympathy, maybe?
I feel sorrier for a baby like yours suffering and dying than perhaps a young man who wanders into a restricted zone.
But I do feel sorry for both. Basically because I think I have been just as stupid at certain points. To be honest, I think you probably have been, also. If you think about it. Maybe not, I can’t know for sure, obviously.
Wanders? This illustrates how you and I differ. You have taken a young man climbing two fences posted with signs warning of imminent danger, and sanitized it.
"Wanders" makes it sound like this guy was walking around eating cotton candy and enjoying the park when BAM! a roller coaster takes his head off. That is not what happened. He climbed a fence put there to keep him out. While doing so he ignored the signs, put there to warn him of the dangers ahead. He then climbed another fence, put there for his protection. He again ignored the posted warning signage. He then walked close enough to an operating roller coaster to have his head violently torn from his body.
That is completely different than 'wandering' into the path of "Batman the Ride."
I first learned of this story while at dinner on Saturday night. I saw the headline "TEEN DECAPITATED AT SIX FLAGS" on CNN from a muted TV. My first reaction was, "That is terrible, I feel sorry for him and his family." Later that evening I read about the incident here on Free Republic. All sympathy for this individual disappeared when I read how this event unfolded and how this 17 year old was solely responsible for his own death.
Truth be told, I now feel sympathy for the people who stood in line for 2 hours, in the Georgia heat to ride this roller coaster - only to have this guy's stupidity shut the ride down as they were next to climb aboard. But that's just me.