{"id":80,"date":"2007-12-05T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/the-young-and-the-ignorant\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:38:43","slug":"the-young-and-the-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/the-young-and-the-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"The young and the ignorant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had something better to say about the recent accident that killed two students at my sister&#8217;s school, one student at another school, and left another one in the hospital.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very tragic.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll link you up to the news stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jsonline.com\/nichols\/archive\/2007\/11\/28\/ntsb-interested-in-i-43-crash.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.jsonline.com\/nichols\/archive\/2007\/11\/28\/ntsb-interested-in-i-43-crash.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22013658\/\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22013658\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisn.com\/news\/14704785\/detail.html\">http:\/\/www.wisn.com\/news\/14704785\/detail.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22103779\/\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22103779\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks like there are some key lessons to be learned for those who haven&#8217;t learned them already:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wear your seatbelt at all times<\/li>\n<li>Drive at a reasonable speed that you can manage<\/li>\n<li>Concentrate on driving &#8211; eliminate distractions such as phone calls, text messages, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Teach others you know (not just your children, but everybody) the importance of safe driving<\/li>\n<li>Realize the interdependence that vehicles on the road rely on<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge that driving is not a right, but a privilege that can be taken away in the case of abuse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0I have very little sympathy for people who don&#8217;t protect themselves.\u00a0 What is the point of all the new safety features in automobiles if we&#8217;re not doing the basics to keep ourselves safe?\u00a0 Most automobiles that have airbags (from the little that I know about them) require that the seatbelt be engaged in order for the airbag to deploy in the case of an accident.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one more thing that may have helped to save the lives of these kids if only they would have been taking care of themselves.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help but feel that this was irresponsibility to the point of suicide.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be reasonable here.\u00a0 If I put together these elements:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I&#8217;m getting in a car with someone behind the wheel who has\u00a0the reputation of driving too fast and being a bad driver.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not putting on my seatbelt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0I can&#8217;t expect anyone to feel anything about my death but pity and disgust.\u00a0 All I can say is that I hope others learn the lessons here.\u00a0 I hope people can start to understand the fragility of human life and the responsibility that comes with the possession of a driver&#8217;s license.\u00a0 Anything short of that will only serve to create more death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had something better to say about the recent accident that killed two students at my sister&#8217;s school, one student at another school, and left another one in the hospital.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very tragic.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll link you up to the news stories: http:\/\/blogs.jsonline.com\/nichols\/archive\/2007\/11\/28\/ntsb-interested-in-i-43-crash.aspx http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22013658\/ http:\/\/www.wisn.com\/news\/14704785\/detail.html http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22103779\/ It looks like there are some key lessons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-driving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-1i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}