-By Gary Krasner
This is classic: Death By Entitlement.
But I’m not going to rag on these two people who met with a tragic end. The author correctly assesses why they died. Even some NY Times readers had it right.
Besides, the virtuous and laudatory beliefs of youth don’t deserve to be denigrated, even if one of those beliefs led to their demise.
However, this story has a very powerful message about how one’s belief systems, that lack evidence, can be dangerous for you.
Liberal ideology, for example, teaches that young blacks males are as non-violent as any other race. But inconvenient data says otherwise. Believe the data and act accordingly. Jesse Jackson does!
It’s not necessarily about liberals. I warn my friend, for example, to be cautious as he travels all over the world. He’s conservative.
But it is their blog entries about their travels and beliefs that provides a marvelous window for us to see how and why this ended tragically.
As the cliche goes, we’ve seen this movie before.
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Death by Entitlement”