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09-08-2011, 05:31 AM

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onlythetruth

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Originally Posted by SixStringZen

I don't quite understand why drawing strength from a tragic event is bad? My mother died of cancer...it motivates me to get a colonoscopy....how is that offensive? I'm not glad it happened...I wish it hadn't....but it would be tragic for me to learn nothing from it...

Oh, there's nothing wrong with learning from someone else's bad experience. The problem comes in when folks go beyond learning from observation, to expressing happiness that the bad thing happened to someone else.