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Originally posted by ruf-porsche
You should do a search on the internet before making a statement such as "Stupid rich person" There are plenty of discussions of Ben Keaton from LaJolla. If you don't know what you are talking about SHUT the FUCH UP.
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I never met any of the parties in the suits, and can not comment on their personalities. I'm sure that they were pleasant people to be with, supported their families, dedicated co-workers and all that. No question about that. But the facts speak for themselves.
1) Person spends obsene amounts of money on a (very very very nice) car. Thus he either must be rich or criminal.
2) Person has concerns about ability of the car or driver.
3) In spite of concerns, person puts car (and stranger) in an unsafe situation and removes themselves from the gene pool. Thus he did not excercise common sense. In the vernacular he was "stupid". It is a tragidy on so many levels.
- Source of love and companionship to the friends and family is removed from the earth. Multiply by two for the passenger.
- Any opportuntities to improve the world through personal contributions of knowledge, compassion, goods or even future genetic materail (ie: future kids who might discover the cure for cancer or negotiatate world peace) are now gone.
Basically, two lives are wasted and a nice car is trashed in the process.
Now multiply that by all of the people who will be negatively impacted by the suits. The stress, the financial loss, the sense of guilt (even if they did nothing wrong). And what's to gain? A partial check for whatever money is collected? Does that make up for all of the above losses? Will it replace all of the ways that the person would have contributed to the family?
Is this what a CGT contributes to society?
Am I angry at Ben Keaten of LaJolla? No. He's beyond all of that petty worldly back-biting now.
Am I frustrated with the poor decisions that he made and how they are impacting the world that he as left?
Absolutely!
We all make bad decisions. We all need to learn to forgive and get-over other people's bad decisions. But we also need to try to do our best not to repeat bad decisions and perpetuate the negative affects on others.
I guess that's the point of my rant. If it weren't for the fact that it's a Porsche CGT that was the catalyst for this whole situation, I never would have posted it here.
Let's try to be safe in our Porsches. Ok?