Comments on: So, It’s Bad To Live? http://www.sundriesshack.com/2004/12/09/so-its-bad-to-live/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gerry http://www.sundriesshack.com/2004/12/09/so-its-bad-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Gerry Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:13:58 +0000 /?p=1171#comment-1051 OOh, EricH, which comment are you referring to? Jimmie's or mine? OOh, EricH, which comment are you referring to? Jimmie's or mine?

]]> By: Jimmie http://www.sundriesshack.com/2004/12/09/so-its-bad-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Jimmie Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:51:11 +0000 /?p=1171#comment-922 I have ti disagree a bit. The beginning of the second paragraph says that our being able to save lives produces "an enormous cost". I, personally, would think that costs less, in many ways, than the cost borne by having all those people die. Given the headline, I would certainly have expected most of the article to deal with how we've managed to get such a low death rate among our soldiers. Instead, most of the story deals with the "enormous cost" of having soldiers rehabilitate serious wounds. But I would think that if you were to weigh the costs of those people rehabilitating their wounds or their dying, the latter would prove far more costly in many ways. Given that, it seems a bit slanted to me for the author to say that having soldiers live is "an enourmous cost" as opposed to saying that we're paying a lesser cost than having them all die. I have ti disagree a bit. The beginning of the second paragraph says that our being able to save lives produces "an enormous cost". I, personally, would think that costs less, in many ways, than the cost borne by having all those people die.

Given the headline, I would certainly have expected most of the article to deal with how we've managed to get such a low death rate among our soldiers. Instead, most of the story deals with the "enormous cost" of having soldiers rehabilitate serious wounds.

But I would think that if you were to weigh the costs of those people rehabilitating their wounds or their dying, the latter would prove far more costly in many ways. Given that, it seems a bit slanted to me for the author to say that having soldiers live is "an enourmous cost" as opposed to saying that we're paying a lesser cost than having them all die.

]]> By: EricH http://www.sundriesshack.com/2004/12/09/so-its-bad-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-920 EricH Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:19:50 +0000 /?p=1171#comment-920 Ooh, that sounds remarkably similar to the comment I made yesterday. Probably just a coincidence.... Ooh, that sounds remarkably similar to the comment I made yesterday. Probably just a coincidence….

]]> By: Gerry http://www.sundriesshack.com/2004/12/09/so-its-bad-to-live/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Gerry Thu, 09 Dec 2004 01:47:04 +0000 /?p=1171#comment-906 The article that you are quoting is reporting facts, and perhaps trying to elicit a discussion or draw attention to a need, but it doesn't seem to me that the author is making any judgements. You, on the other hand are reading more into the author's intentions than his words allow. The article that you are quoting is reporting facts, and perhaps trying to elicit a discussion or draw attention to a need, but it doesn't seem to me that the author is making any judgements. You, on the other hand are reading more into the author's intentions than his words allow.

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