Sanctimosity Instead of Survivor's Remorse

A child of some close friends died recently. He was sixteen years-old, and he was doing things with friends that his parents would have warned him about, had they known what he was doing at the time. It made the news, and the outpouring of criticism was deafening.

Most of the comments made on the story about a child drowning after running from the cops talked about the remorse of him not getting another chance to set things straight. However, a few of the more vocal comments were about what seemed to be instant karma for someone who probably would not have made the same decisions had he known the results of his decisions.

It reminds me of the people who brag about surviving riding in the back of pickup trucks and station wagons without seat belts. Those who did not survive those rides, such as my neighbor's three children, are unnoticeably silent during those discussions these days.