Otto
What a horrific story.
Otto Warmbier died on Monday after spending a long while in a coma.
He was a 22 year-old boy who, while on a tour in North Korea, was arrested for trying to steal a political banner.
He was branded as an enemy of the state and was held there for 18 months before being sent back to Ohio...
...in a coma.
The details of the story are absolutely horrifying, and I couldn't even watch the Dad speak of the loss of his boy.
Of course everyone is absolutely aghast with the horror of it all, but day after day we are forced to take in the horrors of the world.
Makes me wonder.
I won't be around long enough to see if humans get it right. I was hopeful as a youngster, but the older you get the more hopeless it appears.
There are men around the world who are content to get into a vehicle and plow into innocent people. Others wield guns or knives.
Not caring who they maim or kill.
Years ago I used to argue with my brother-in-law Chuck about the death penalty, war...etc...
He would call me an idealistic dreamer and I labeled him as a war monger.
We actually debated everything.
Chuck used to tell me that my world view was too rose-colored.
He explained that the people we were talking about weren't interested in peaceful resolution to some of the World's problems.
I would argue that point from morning to night.
"People are basically good!" I would argue.
But now, I wonder.
Beat down!
Maybe Sir Charles was right.
Perhaps there's no way to peacefully solve things.
But I stand by what I always have said:
There are still more good people in the world than bad people.
Right?
Right?
Damn, I hope I'm right.
RIP Otto.
Otto Warmbier died on Monday after spending a long while in a coma.
He was a 22 year-old boy who, while on a tour in North Korea, was arrested for trying to steal a political banner.
He was branded as an enemy of the state and was held there for 18 months before being sent back to Ohio...
...in a coma.
The details of the story are absolutely horrifying, and I couldn't even watch the Dad speak of the loss of his boy.
Of course everyone is absolutely aghast with the horror of it all, but day after day we are forced to take in the horrors of the world.
Makes me wonder.
I won't be around long enough to see if humans get it right. I was hopeful as a youngster, but the older you get the more hopeless it appears.
There are men around the world who are content to get into a vehicle and plow into innocent people. Others wield guns or knives.
Not caring who they maim or kill.
Years ago I used to argue with my brother-in-law Chuck about the death penalty, war...etc...
He would call me an idealistic dreamer and I labeled him as a war monger.
We actually debated everything.
Chuck used to tell me that my world view was too rose-colored.
He explained that the people we were talking about weren't interested in peaceful resolution to some of the World's problems.
I would argue that point from morning to night.
"People are basically good!" I would argue.
But now, I wonder.
Beat down!
Maybe Sir Charles was right.
Perhaps there's no way to peacefully solve things.
But I stand by what I always have said:
There are still more good people in the world than bad people.
Right?
Right?
Damn, I hope I'm right.
RIP Otto.
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