Friday, September 12, 2008
Idiots - again
| Hurricane Ike ... forced the U.S. Coast Guard to launch helicopter evacuations of local residents. At least 50 people on the Bolivar Peninsula became stranded by high winds and rain and are being rescued, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. This drama is unfolding despite a blunt warning from the National Weather Service to residents of Galveston in advance of the storm. "Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family, one- or two-story homes, will face certain death," the warning said. |
What part of certain death don't these idiots understand? And it's not just them. I've read other articles about folks in Texas who are living practically on the beach and have no intention to evacuate. That means that more Coast Guard, and other emergency response, folks are going to have put their lives on the line to save some idiots who don't deserve saving.
It probably makes me sub-human, but I think there are types of behavior that just aren't acceptable and that society shouldn't have to put itself in danger to rescue those people. There's a site/book/phrase The Darwin Awards that document, and in fact award, certain destructive types of stupid behavior. Their logic is that humanity is served when the genes of people too stupid to live are removed from humanity. To me daring a hurricane is one those behaviors we can do without. Not to mention those folks, unfortunately not idiots, who continually rebuild their homes and businesses on sites that past hurricanes/forest fires/floods/etc. have wiped clean. I'm tired of paying for them to continue their idiotic lifestyle. You don't thing their insurance companies are going to repay them out of the goodness of their hearts do you? Nope, the payoff comes from increased premiums to the rest of us.
