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Originally Posted by javadog
What, not enough hate in the Tiger thread, gotta start another?
Everyone has a hero, or someone they admire for what they do, or for what they did. Usually it revolves around what you're interested in. I'm a huge motorsports fan and also happen to have been a golfer since I was a kid. I played competitive golf, so I understand what he's done. I want him to continue. So I'm interested in his welfare.
In the motorsports arena, I was hit pretty hard when Senna was killed. Watched it live, on TV. Still wonder what he might have accomplished.
When Nicky Hayden was killed, that was a big deal for me as well. I was a fan, but I also knew his family, so it was more personal. I still remember the last time I talked to him. He wasn't as famous as Senna but that personal connection made it even harder.
So it boils down to what connections you may have with an individual, or the sport they play, or whatever has brought them into the public eye.
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Absolutely. And haters gotta hate, especially since the dawn of the internet. In the old days, the only person who had to hear it was the poor sap on the bar stool next to the hater. Now the audience is a bit larger.
Senna was a terrible loss. I'm sure that you've seen the documentary? Really sad. And yes, people die everyday who are mourned by those around them but famous people touch more people's lives, for better or worse. I cried like a baby when John Prine died last year, really didn't see that emotion coming but his music and writing meant a lot to me when I was young and at a particular time in my life. I was also completely alone up in the woods, reading about so many people dying everyday from Covid and certain deaths really stung, sometimes not famous people at all.
The point is that people have emotional connections to public figures that you might not share but I try to understand their feelings, unless the deceased is just a horrible human being. When JFK jr. died, I was completely crushed. Felt like someone punched me in the gut. I had very little personal connection to him but I had met him, one of my closest friends grew up w him and they went to HS and college together at Brown. I remember my BIL making disparaging comments about him at the time and it was really tough for me. I didn't want to fight over it because I love my BIL and his biological dad died in a military plane crash when he was a baby, so maybe that contributed to his remarks.
Anyhow, opinions are like *you know whats* and the internet gives them a megaphone.