Georgian Luger Dies at the Olympics

[Blarg]

I wonder how scared the guy who went down the track right after this was.

[Kaylia]

I wonder how scared the guy who went down the track right after this was.

I don't think anyone used it since then. They added a wall to bounce the player back inside and so they can break their neck differently.

[Tankjr]

At first I thought that "Georgian Luger" was the proper name of an American athlete. I don't see what the big deal is here since foreigners are no better than animals. This is just like watching "Trials of Life: Hunting and escaping"

[Kuya]

Have they mentioned what his injuries were exactly? Internal bleeding?

[Tricen]

He probably died from blunt force trauma to the everywhere.

[Chun Liroy]

I laffed, Tricen.

[Afrohatch]

He probably died from blunt force trauma to the everywhere.

fucking lol

[Abandon]

He probably died from blunt force trauma to the everywhere.

oh god, rofl

[Minions]

Page is win, archive it.


Those pics (in the spoiler) + Tricen = too much for 1 page

[Nitsuki]

man i'm seriously going to hell for laughing so hard, and to what tricen said.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

Very sad.

I'm not saying this is like, a happy day for the world, buy why is it sad? I mean, you lay down on a board with blades on the bottom, put on a flimsy helmet, and fly down an ice track at about 80 miles an hour. It's not the safest of sports, and he had to know there was a risk.

The track wasn't properly set up, and an Olympic gold medalist Luger said it was most likely a small error in the driving of the Georgian athlete. It sucks, but how is it all that sad?

Luger article.

[Tricen]

Someone dying is sad to someone, so to call it not sad isn't correct. Most people are going to be indifferent about it. I wont lose sleep over it, but someone will.

[Kaylia]

I'm not saying this is like, a happy day for the world, buy why is it sad? I mean, you lay down on a board with blades on the bottom, put on a flimsy helmet, and fly down an ice track at about 80 miles an hour. It's not the safest of sports, and he had to know there was a risk.

The track wasn't properly set up, and an Olympic gold medalist Luger said it was most likely a small error in the driving of the Georgian athlete. It sucks, but how is it all that sad?

Luger article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
Empathy, which literally translates as in feeling, is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings.

It's something human are capable, but is apparently lost on the internet.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
Empathy, which literally translates as in feeling, is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings.

It's something human are capable, but is apparently lost on the internet.

Well, there are theories that say a person has a limit to the number of people someone can maintain personal relationships with or care for directly, such as Dunbar's Number. It would seem that someone you hear about over the internet would make it even harder for at least a decent number of people to feel any real emotions for them.

Only about 5 of the now 54 posts in this thread have anyone saying anything to the effect of this being sad. The rest are mostly observations, jokes, or peoples responses to the aforementioned jokes, and most of the latter are agreeing that they are funny. If anything, I'd say that was worse than someone saying a person dieing during a dangerous sport was an assumed risk, and it should mitigate the sadness of said accidental death.

Also, saying it is only empathy implies that there is someone out there who is directly saddened by the incident. Now, there is most likely someone who is sad because of this, but you can't know, and you can't attribute the sadness directly to empathy. It's possible that there is an expectation of sadness at the news of death that permeates through society, and that empathy has nothing to do with some of the traditional responses to the death of someone you don't know.

[Sylvrdragon]

Am I the only one that thought of this:

(relevant part starts at 1:36. Couldn't find anything closer -.-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUra-oOBuTA

[Kaylia]

I would say that empathy bypass Dunbar's number by changing the actor into people you care about. You can easily replace "his family" with "your family", and feel sad about it. If empathy works on fictional character, you can feel empathy for someone you imagine.

I personally don't think the high risk mitigate the sadness of death. I met a few people who never got over their children's death (rafting, car accident...etc), and the risk they were taking didn't change anything. I agree some situation can make it worse, but in overall, it really depend of every person's tolerance to death.


Internet crowd isnt quite the most sensitive crowd. Show the same picture to people who have 20 years old son, and you won't get as many laugh.

[Tricen]

Internet is text, it's so much less personal. It's easy to laugh at text.

[Plow]

luging is on nbc right now, it feels really weird to watch it


what's really sad is that was literally the last turn... it was like close enough that if there was a bigger wall there to keep him on track he would have like slid across the end line...


anyway, even if people are making jokes about it or whatnot, I can't see how people wouldn't feel sad for the guy

death is (generally) just a sad thing

[Wakabo]

He probably died from blunt force trauma to the everywhere.

I'm late but this made me lol a lot.