Double trouble!

There's the perennial maxim "speak nothing but good of the dead" that lacks the fact of questioning what led to gain a consequence of death. That's a very Pinoy thing; terribly salient especially in times of calamities like now. A report earlier mentioned that the authorities had to threaten people at gunpoint for them to get the point (pun intended perhaps) and evacuate their homes before the Typhoon Pepeng can do more than make them eat bullets. It's appalling yet it's ingrained in us. Yes, you can't leave your dream house, your flat TV and your priceless documents so never mind dying for them. So it's like this, if people don't want their safety offered to them (because god knows they know better than other people, riiiiight), do me a fat lot of good and make the world a better place. Less people, less pollution hey? Double trouble!