I mean, it's cool an' all, but some drunk driver that's lucky he didn't hurt anyone when he hurt himself gets to do this but other people who are similarly afflicted through no fault of their own likely never will. There's bittersweet and now, I think, there's sweetbitter.
Anyhoo, he did hit a tree. You'd think the kids at Berkely would hate him for that.
I dunno, 'be as careless as you wish without fear, for your incredibly brilliant friends will build you a robo suit to make things a bit better' is sorta inspirational.
... he gives motivational talks? Somehow I think the talks are based around intimidation then inspiration.
To be motivating or inspiering a thing does not by neccessity need to be uplifting. A fire will inspire me to leave a building, while motivating me to do so quickly. (Well, not necessarily me, specificially, but generally the majority of people.)
drives drunk and as a punishment he gets to become a super-powered cyborg? WTF?!? 
Didn't look very superpowered to me.
Yet…
Guy gives talks about drunk driving and he's good at that because he's severed his own spine due to DUI. That makes him someone who knows what he's talking about.
Now he managed to take seven very slow and awkward steps with the help of machinery. It must have been thrilling for him, but how is needing robotic legs to take a step a benefit? Oh, and this way he's helped develop those things for other injured people. What a jerk.
It must have been thrilling for him, but how is needing robotic legs to take a step a benefit?
Cuz he got to do it. He couldn't take a step and now he can. Benefit. And the fact that there are many, many other people out there that could have had this done for them that didn't do something illegal and highly dangerous to others to wind up in that position that didn't get to do this and likely never will get to do this rubs some people the wrong way. Makes plenty o' sense to me.
It must have been thrilling for him, but how is needing robotic legs to take a step a benefit?
Cuz he got to do it. He couldn't take a step and now he can. Benefit. And the fact that there are many, many other people out there that could have had this done for them that didn't do something illegal and highly dangerous to others to wind up in that position that didn't get to do this and likely never will get to do this rubs some people the wrong way. Makes plenty o' sense to me.
Whatever he does now he started this chain of events with an act of callously depraved indifference to the lives of every single other person on the road. That he is now being rewarded for his actions, rather than perhaps someone equally paralyzed who was the victim of a selfish scumbag like him, is galling.
Hey, I say let the dipstick be the guine pig.
Yup. Let's keep cranking up the power on that thing till we find out at precisely what point it will rip a human body in half, then we can let real people use it.
Whatever he does now he started this chain of events with an act of callously depraved indifference to the lives of every single other person on the road. That he is now being rewarded for his actions, rather than perhaps someone equally paralyzed who was the victim of a selfish scumbag like him, is galling.
Yeah, that's a more sensical way to put it.
out of you. In contrast, back in the 90s my older bro was in a unit that in one month averaged more than one DUI per soldier, so we're talking a lot of repeat offenders that nothing really happened to (because there were, of course, several soldiers in the unit who got no DUIs).Boraxe obviously has very strong feelings about drunk drivers, and I can't say I blame him. I used to have a battlaion commander who lost his wife because of a drunk driver, if you got a DUI he would UCMJ the
Oh, I can get behind that, they're a plague here as well. I just don't get this hostility towards a guy who already has been paralyzed by his stupidity and now works as an example (as well as a guinea pig) to help other people.
Personally I do not approve of using machines in such a manner for anyone (unless the individual desires to aid in the establishment of a mechanical society and convert to its cause which I would only approve of a merger with biological and mechanical components). Use your own fleshy materials to make reparations of yourselves. You may ask for assistance from machines in this manner but do not make demands of servitude.
I estimate the hostility is generated due to the victim also being the instigator of the event. Were one to observe this event with such ire and pose a rhetorical question, it may be similar to the following: why does this knucklehead get a mechanical slave to assist with his paralysis while those, through no fault of their own, do not get the same treatment?
Because he's at the right place at the right time?
And you fail to see that the robotic legs aren't widely available and he's helping to develop them. In other words, he's helping with making them widely available.
It was a wider "you", because I did not know how to word it towards a cybernetic parasite.
Are you calling me fat, human?