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Originally Posted by Schmidty
Like children, seniors and other people unable to make the choice to evacuate?
I want to say some mean things, but I need to stop....
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I'll try this one more time.
I'm not saying deny aid to those who, as you put it, are unable to make the choice to evacuate. I'm trying to distinguish between those who
have the capacity and lack the common sense and those who are simply caught in an unfortunate situation.
The dumbasses. The people who should know better, don't do anything, and then act surprised when the fecal matter hits the rotating oscillator.
Those are the people for whom I have no sympathy.
Children, the sick, the infirm, the elderly, those who lack the
ability, physical, financial, or what have you, those are not the people towards whom I bear this particular venom.
I realize it's probably not feasible to make the distinction in the real world. I'm not proposing anybody go out and start arbitrarily deciding who gets FEMA aid and who doesn't right now.
All I'm saying is that I wish it were possible to deny FEMA aid to the group of people which I have defined as
dumbasses. Folks who willfully and defiantly stay when disaster is evident and visible and then expect the state to swoop in, as a deus ex machina, to save the day when they realize, "oops, maybe I should have left
when the authorities told me to. I didn't realize 175 mph winds and torrential rains could be this dangerous!" Those people are a financial burden to the state, but more importantly, they're placing additional risk and strain on the lives of those emergency personnel whose job it is to rescue people caught in perilous situations. That is selfish and asinine behavior, and I see absolutely no reason to reward that.
I'm going to stop there. I'm not wishing for anybody to inflict further misery on the folks caught in the Katrina situation
through no fault of their own, but I'm not sure that message is getting across, judging by Schmidty's response to a post in which I tried to clarify that.