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Originally posted by pbs911
Those dang soldiers who are killed / maimed in Iraq. They really had it coming. . . voluntary enlisting to go into a war we really shouldn't be involved with. After all they knew it was a dangerous / reckless situation. Is that also natural selection, or just people who believe in what their doing?
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Nice tug at the heart strings. You're exactly right, though. They knew there was a war going on, and they wanted to be a part of it. Even if they joined to get college paid for, they still knew full well that there is always a chance of war and of getting killed. It's a risk they knew and assumed.
I knew two kids from High School who enlisted in the US Marine Corps along with 3 of their other buddies (whom I also knew). Why? They wanted to fight for their country. And so they did, and so two of them lost their lives doing it in Iraq. A third (the one I knew best) took an AK round to the chest (he lived). A kid I just met at UK was in Iraq with the 7th Rangers and took a shotgun blast to the chest in Iraq.
Now on one hand I feel sorry for their loss and their families, but on the other, it was their choice.
How does that relate to Irwin? He knew the risks of playing with *wild* animals, and did it anyway. He assumed the risk of possible death by playing with animals that weren't meant to be played with. Irwin skirted death on numerous occassions, and while he may have died in a freak accident, (I think) his luck just plain ran out. Just like Dale. Or my friends in Iraq.
Irwin had a good run, but it had to close out sometime.
As other posters mentioned though, at least he died doing something he really loved doing, no matter how foolish it may seem to the rest of us. We should all be so fortunate.