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Old 11-29-2007, 10:26 AM
Kurn, son of Mogh Kurn, son of Mogh is offline
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Default Re: Sean Taylor Shot at Home

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It is completely unnecessary and, really, unacceptable for anyone to say anything other than how sad this is. Let's not be so inconsiderate, people. Some of the comments in this thread are mind-boggling.

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Why is it unacceptable to speculate as to *why* this happened?

Unless someone here knew Taylor personally, nobody who is posting has the slightest idea what kind of person he was. IMO who he was lies in the spectrum ranging from "Great guy" to "dirtbag" and I have precisely zero evidence of where to place him in that spectrum.

Millions of other people died that same day. Many of them were young and also had families.

"Never until the mankind making
Bird beast and flower
Fathering and all humbling darkness
Tells with silence the last light breaking
And the still hour
Is come of the sea tumbling in harness

And I must enter again the round
Zion of the water bead
And the synagogue of the ear of corn
Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound
Or sow my salt seed
In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn

The majesty and burning of the child's death.
I shall not murder
The mankind of her going with a grave truth
Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath
With any further
Elegy of innocence and youth.

Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter,
Robed in the long friends,
The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,
Secret by the unmourning water
Of the riding Thames.
After the first death, there is no other."

- "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" - Dylan Thomas

As Thomas suggests, falling all over ourselves to mourn here is nothing more than self-gratification.
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