Re:Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)
by s1artibartfast on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:01AM
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Sometimes text is not the best medium for communication. I intdended to ask a concise and honest question and I am sorry if you took offense.
>What exactly is the issue with volunteers smoking? Is it that they might physically or emotionally trigger someone?
Triggered isn't exclusively a slur, but a real phenomenon, though often misused.
Smoke triggering a physical reaction in a post-op cancer survivor may be a legitimate concern, as would be triggering a emotional response in people who lost a loved one.
It was not and is not clear from Ken's post that this was his rationale, and rather some relation between smoking and cause "awareness". I have lost family members to lung cancer, and have other family members who still smoke. I have seen people smoke as they die of lung cancer. I do not think it is for lack of "awareness".
Also, it seems like you have a very different mental image of what was described, and a very different reaction to it. Seeing someone self harm at such and event would make me sad, not angry. They are literally the class of people the event is trying to support.
>What exactly is the issue with volunteers smoking? Is it that they might physically or emotionally trigger someone?
Triggered isn't exclusively a slur, but a real phenomenon, though often misused.
Smoke triggering a physical reaction in a post-op cancer survivor may be a legitimate concern, as would be triggering a emotional response in people who lost a loved one.
It was not and is not clear from Ken's post that this was his rationale, and rather some relation between smoking and cause "awareness". I have lost family members to lung cancer, and have other family members who still smoke. I have seen people smoke as they die of lung cancer. I do not think it is for lack of "awareness".
Also, it seems like you have a very different mental image of what was described, and a very different reaction to it. Seeing someone self harm at such and event would make me sad, not angry. They are literally the class of people the event is trying to support.