why the good guys?

Okay, today is the first day back to work after turducken day.  I did my usual thing and listened to KRLD on my drive in.  It keeps me up to date on the world and more importantly, the traffic.  One news story was about a car wreck in Ft. Worth.  A SUV blitzed through a red light and slammed into another car.  The two passangers of the car were killed in the wreck.  They were very well to do people who gave a lot back to the community.  They were benefactors to the Amon Carter Museum, supported CASA (a child’s advocacy group), and did many other things.  Why do the good guys get taken out this way?  Why not the crack heads, drug dealers, rapists, etc.  If a drunken SUV takes out future death row inmates, does society really suffer?  Maybe this happens all the time and we just do not here about it because it is not newsworthy enough.  I don’t want to sound crass, but I certainly hope so.  I would hate to think that the population of good guys is dwindling while the dregs of society are winning.

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Matt

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4 thoughts on “why the good guys?”

  1. I am in the ‘happens all the time, just not newsworthy” camp. Driving is dangerous, yadda yadda. Productive people in society die everyday, as do those with bad intentions. We hear about 1% of the cases, and usually because someone was nearby with a camera, or there was some way some nobody in a newsroom could spin a story out of the incident.

    Yes, I’m a cynic.

  3. I don’t want to sound judgemental, but Matt?! I am surprised by your confusion over “good” people vs “bad” people dying. I would think that everyone being a child of God, weather saved or not is one of the “good” guys, and if their life has taken a turn for the worse, doesn’t make them any less “good”. Even those crack heads and drug dealers are someones mother, father, brother, sister, wife, husband, etc. I would think you would be a little more compassionate for all mankind.
    JMO….

    oh and just because you have money to give to charitable organizations, doesn’t make you automatically “good”. You don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, and same goes for those less fortunate, or so called “criminals”.

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