Thread: Batman Dies of Heroin O.D..

Originally Posted by jockeys

evolution at work. those that cannot adapt cannot survive.

Wow. Harsh!

It's pretty dumb to kill yourself (deliberately or by self neglect) because you failed at one thing. But maybe it's a consequence of today's "you can achieve anything if you are determined enough" mentaility.

Fact is: you can't. We shouldn't teach kids this nonsense.

I wonder how long before we hear of someone killing themselves because they didn't win the X-Factor. It seems to be full of whining wannabes saying " I must win, this is my whole life." It's a tragic attitude to life.

Originally Posted by Rajagra

It's pretty dumb to kill yourself (deliberately or by self neglect) because you failed at one thing. But maybe it's a consequence of today's "you can achieve anything if you are determined enough" mentaility.

but that's just it. obviously, he's not a good baseball player. anyone with half a brain would have just changed careers and kept on living. adapt, survive. he obviously couldn't. amazingly, the world keeps turning.

He defiantly had some demons, but, I didn't post it so we could criticize his performance and the reason he did it. The fact that he was a average player is irrelevant in the "big" picture. His life and his future were what really mattered and it just ended as abruptly as it began!

If I were to have read about this when the trade happened I might have found humor / irony in the event; but it simply demonstrates the callousness I hold for the sake of a "laugh".

We each have an unrealized potential regardless of what "evolutionistic ideologists" say. It's just distressing that "life" means so very little.