Originally posted by: thraashman
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: R Nilla
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Nothing in the article suggests that her cancer is terminal, and you can bet that the writer would have mentioned that in order to enhance the emotional appeal if it were so.
Additionally, the fact that she wants to do it does not address my point that she shouldn't be so fixated on an empty ceremony. How long she has to live is irrelevant, logically, to my point. Divorce emotion from your thinking and base this off of pure logic.
ZV
Logically, the simplest solution for all parties involved would be to let her walk during this ceremony. What harm is done in allowing this to take place?
There is no harm done by her not walking either.
My point is simply that walking or not walking should, rationally, be neutral.
ZV
Ok, any cancer that requires two sugeries and weeks of radiation therapy is no small thing. It doesn't even say that she's better, just that this is the reason she's been out. So it's very likely (what with about 25% of all deaths in the US being cancer related) that she isn't able to live long enough to look back on this moment. In life we're often remembered for our accomplishments, and this may very well be the last one this girl has a real chance at.
The harm here is in not allowing a girl who wants nothing more than to graduate with her friends and classmates get the symbolic honor walking.
Hell at my school 1 week before graduation a junior classman was abducted and murdered. Everyone at graduation wore pins in memory, and the next year they called his name at graduation and gave his parents their son's diploma. Though technically he didn't complete that last year, so according to you the school shouldn't have done something like that.
Another example. I graduated college in December 2004. In March 2005 my grandfather died. I was his youngest grandchild and the last to graduate college. It meant a lot to me that I was able to graduate college and celebrate that moment with him before he passed away. Things like this can mean alot to someone.
If I were that classes Valedictorian I would recognize her in my speech and ask that the entire class walk out right now if they don't allow her to walk with them, and then proceed to walk out myself. What you and some others in here fail to realize is that it's very often a good idea to allow our emotions to dictate actions. It makes the world a better place.