JsnSA said:
So where do you draw the line?
Are you saying that no person should ever have money spent on a funeral and headstone after they die...because there are other living people who could use the money more?
Have you ever spent money on a movie...or some candy...or a shirt you didnt really need but bought because you thought it looked nice and frankly just wanted it?
Well how dare you spend money on anything trivial like that when someone else out there is in need?
I am serious....where do you draw the line then?
I hope you are planning on being burried without a headstone or ceremony that might cost money...but if not...youll be a hypocrite.
Going to a Cowboys game in person??? Better think again...there are other people out there that need your money more than you need that entertainment.
This is certainly a valid point, but I'm not talking about drawing a line anywhere. I'm talking about people going out of their way to raise cash to purchase a headstone for a dead convicted felon whom they've never met or personally interacted with in any way just because he was a Cowboy.
We all know athletes are afforded certain luxuries that a normal person doesn't get just because they are athletes. This is common knowledge.
I just have to wonder if we would all be so quick to pony up some bucks to buy a headstone for many of the other drug dealers who I'm sure have been laid to rest without a proper and befitting memorial to their exciting life and times here on earth.......especially knowing that these same drug dealers have ruined and perhaps ENDED many more lives besides their own. Perhaps maybe even some of our own loved ones have been affected by these fallen, unmarked, unknown souls whom dwell post-humously in landfills and lake bottoms and shallow graves all around the world. I'm sure some of these scoundrels used to be really great people before they started lying, stealing, and killing to get themselves high.
I heard Charlie Manson is a born-again Christian. I even heard that he would be willing to "help kids" if they'd let him out of the clink for awhile. Get that man a headstone reserved!
While many of you get in line to financially advocate the propaganda of the untouchable and heroic athlete, I want it to be known that some of us out here find it disgusting and sad that those valuble dollars couldn't be used in a better way.
I'd just like to urge each and every one of you whom would lend a dollar to a dead man to instead lend it to a LIVING person in need.