Multi-millionaire Jimi Heselden, the owner of Segway, Inc. since December 2009, has died after reportedly driving a Segway scooter off a cliff and into a river. More here.
Is it wrong to laugh at this?
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You can react to this anyway you like, but I would question your intuitions when you appeal to the non-existence of God via problem of evil.
i believe questions such as the one you are posing are covered in most moral philosophy text books under the heading of 'segway problems'.
It's wrong NOT to laugh at that.
He deserves a Darwin Award.
The ultimate Segway segue.
Verification: geste
beau.
No, its not wrong to laugh. If I die stupidly, I hope people can get a good chuckle from it.
I'm going to buck the trend and say: Yes. It is wrong to laugh at someone's death. Even if they die in a silly way.
It's not wrong to laugh at this. I once drove a Segway during a test drive demo at Brookstone in Rockefeller Center, NYC. I flipped over the handle bars by leaning a little too much.
Anyone who uses a Segway in country terrain is begging to be launched Sonny Bono style into something.
It's a cool yet comical machine that is prone to make anyone the object of slapstick comedy. He should have worn a helmet and crash pads.
Yeah, what a derfus.
Verification: 'derfus'
Is it really just one out of 10 comments here that thinks it's wrong to laugh at someone dying, even if it's because of something dumb they did? He had a family that probably loved him and he was a philanthropist. But even if he weren't, it would be messed up to laugh. At least those are my intuitions. Are 8:43 and I really in the minority? I hope someone in x-phi does a survey on this type of thing and establishes that this set of comments is unrepresentative, because this is depressing to me.
Suppose you were killed by a falling bookshelf containing Rawls secondary literature. Would you mind if people laughed?
I thought this was an Onion headline when I first saw it.
@11:55 -- While delighting in the misfortunes of others does seem to be a vice, chuckling at life's ironies, even when they're tragic, doesn't strike me as "messed up." But then again, I may just be one of the "other cranky jerks" that hang around here...
I did, when I heard the news in a meeting with my vice-chancellor, who did not.
I am laughing at 6:52's misfortune. Is that wrong?
No
So funny. But no, not wrong. Aren't we laughing because the manner of his death is plain absurd. (Some New YOrker cartoons are kinda sadistic, is it wrong to find them funny? no) Most of us can separate sadness from absurdity...
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