(November 9, 2016 at 3:59 am)robvalue Wrote: I remember now that the family that lost members in the accident (I think they were children) were "pleased" with the sentence. I find that rather hard to understand, personally. It seems like they feel there must be retribution, regardless of whether it actually achieves anything.
I guess is stems from our instinctive desire for "fairness", that someone can't be allowed to "get away with things".
I don't get why you wouldn't understand that people would want some retribution for a lost loved one due to careless behavior.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
