To look past

My mother is currently teaching a couple mathematics courses at a technical college in North Carolina.

 

In one of her classes on Monday she mentioned the tragic death of two brothers who died on Friday evening. The two brothers had been getting high on something. We’re not sure what it was, but the news/papers said it was a legal substance. Anyway, the boys were high and were playing on a railroad track and were run over by a train.

 

Because my mother is a mother and cares about all of her students, she told them this story as a warning to not do drugs. Her students’ responses? Well, Mrs. Kimbrell, the drug was legal.

 

That was their argument. It was legal. Can they not see past the fact that it was legal to decide for themselves that it still might not be a good idea?

 

Is it any comfort to these boys’ parents that their sons died on Friday doing something legal? No it’s not. They are still dead. Because of doing something stupid.