A recent big surprise

Back to facebook once again.

The recent shooting in Oregon was in the news.  I didn't say anything about it for a while, but then a cartoon resonated with me and I shared it.

A correspondent was unhappy and thought it was "highly offensive" and "we are talking about dead children."

I think he read the post incorrectly and his comments were not on point.

But the big surprise was that this guy works in a medium and has a job that deals with on air discussions of various things.  I don't want to get to specific, as I said in the first post, I don't want to embarrass anyone.

"Highly offensive" and "dead children" are emotional blasts designed to limit debate.  If you think about it, a lot of public policy might eventually lead to dead children - car safety, bike helmets, climate stuff, big gulp drinks, etc.  Thus by extension none of that policy can be discussed or debated or there might be more than one legitimate way to look at it?

Coming from a guy in the business seemed surprising.  I'd assume that he would recognize the remark for what it would do.  Was it deliberate?  I don't think so.  I think he, like a lot of us, reacted emotionally and that was that.