I could’ve sworn I wrote about this, but I guess nothing brought it to the front of my thought after I joined the community. Six-ish months before I joined the community–so this is October of 2006–some kid at my school offed himself.
It seems that, in America at least, every time a student kills himself the entire student body rushes forth to defend his honor.
“He’s such a great friend!” people would proclaim, even though he hated them in life.
“He was very generous…” from people who barely knew his name.
“He would give you the shirt off his back!” –my personal favorite–when he’s a scummy selfish fuck.
Now, let’s get some background info on this kid…He was a player on my school’s football team [American football, ofc., not soccer]. He was also involved in violent and other crimes. At some point during that Sophomore year [of mine; it was his Senior year], he got a DUI. He was 18 at the time and already on probation–he probably still would’ve gotten a slap on the wrist, but he decided that he couldn’t deal with the consequences of his unlawful and irresponsible actions. He snatched up a gun and blew his own brains out to escape punishment.
While people who didn’t actually know him were crying, I was saying, “Good fucking riddance.” Cold? No, realistic.
Society does not /need/ people like that. If you can’t deal with the potential consequences of an action…don’t perform that action. If you are a scumbag or pussy, do society a favor! And if you’re a spineless whiner, spare the rest of us of your nonsense. If you don’t know him and you claim you do, etc., then it is not only intensely annoying, but it is extremely insulting to the family and REAL friends…at least, I think it would be.
I’m not really the type to be united with my [now former] schoolmates under the pretense of someone’s dumbassery. They had a moment of silence for the idiot…nah, sorry, I don’t think people who run from their own self-imposed problems DESERVE a moment of reverence. I don’t think, personally, that I should be bound to silence to honor some irresponsible punk [who is better off dead].
I got so sick of hearing friends of mine boo-hooing about his ‘tragedy.’ My response? A lovely little demotivational poster:
Of course it was met with feelings of warmth and joy; I had inverted it and stealthily made it evident to attendees of the school. I saw one faker get raged and shred it. Yes…I’m insensitive, but faking mourning for someone you don’t know is more offensive, imo. Like I said, it’s insulting to the people who REALLY were close to him.
Imagine my joy while perusing the program for the ceremony where it stated one of the scholarships to be presented was the, “Irish” Isaac W. Powell Scholarship.
Oh, right…we award scholarships in the name of criminals, criminals who kill themselves over a DUI. Hey, who wants to start a Columbine Scholarship with me? How about a Seung-Hui Cho Scholarship [douche responsible for the Virginia Tech shootings of April 2007]? Oh, wait, that’s not okay? Why not..
helixy
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If all the idiots in the world offed themselves, the world would be such a nice place.
But yeah, ludicrous to name a scholarship after him.
Yeah, I’ve got to agree with you and X on that one. What’s that saying again, not enough bullets?
Why did you decided to spread your poster stealthily instead of openly? This is exactly what you ranted against: performing an action without wanting to deal with the consequences.
Please, kill yourself.
You’re delightful. :]
Not because I am afraid of being bitched at for it–I was bitched at plenty for openly calling people out for being liars! It was amusing.
I did it without being obvious because I thought it would be–and was–amusing to see people get out their torches and pitchforks but fail to come to the obviously conclusion seeing as how I was the /only/ person to openly speak out about it. It led to doubt between the false mourners, and it was pretty funny. In this, I was just tossing the Apple of Discord; just call me Eris.