…then it was worth it!”

What a load of sanctimonious wank. We’ve all heard it, whether it’s from a celebrity raising money for a charity, or someone suffering after an unfortunate – yet completely avoidable – accident telling everyone how it happened, and if through their unfortunate circumstances, just one person could avoid similar suffering, then it would all be worth it.

Let’s be honest here, we know, and you know, that you’re lying through your teeth, why not admit it?  If, in reality, your sacrifice (no matter how small) benefited just one solitary person, then I’m sure you’d be the first to complain.

“I went through all that for just one person? Are you fucking kidding me?! What a bastard!”

As if benefiting just one person isn’t bad enough, you’re not even going to the trouble of qualifying who that one person could be. What if your sacrifice in showing everyone else in the world what happens when you try to light your crack-pipe with a firework, serves only to stop Kim Jong II or Osama Bin Laden from doing it, with everyone else in the world ignoring you, and your mistake. Would it still worth the hideous facial burns you suffered?

I heard someone on the radio recently, and they were discussing Richard Hammond’s 300 mile an hour jet-car accident, and they said, I kid you not, “If this makes just one person act more responsibly on the roads, then maybe it will have been worth it”.

Excuse me?

Do you think Mr Hammond is of the same opinion? I’ll bet he’d quite happily see a whole raft of teenage scrotes wrap themselves and their XR2’s around various lamposts in order to get the full use of his brain back.

What I want to know, more than anything, is who this one person is, and what is it that is so fucking special about them that they’re worth untold suffering around the world?

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…then it was worth it!”

What a load of sanctimonious wank. We’ve all heard it, whether it’s from a celebrity raising money for a charity, or someone suffering after an unfortunate – yet completely avoidable – accident telling everyone how it happened, and if through their unfortunate circumstances, just one person could avoid similar suffering, then it would all be worth it.

Let’s be honest here, we know, and you know, that you’re lying through your teeth, why not admit it?  If, in reality, your sacrifice (no matter how small) benefited just one solitary person, then I’m sure you’d be the first to complain.

“I went through all that for just one person? Are you fucking kidding me?! What a bastard!”

As if benefiting just one person isn’t bad enough, you’re not even going to the trouble of qualifying who that one person could be. What if your sacrifice in showing everyone else in the world what happens when you try to light your crack-pipe with a firework, serves only to stop Kim Jong II or Osama Bin Laden from doing it, with everyone else in the world ignoring you, and your mistake. Would it still worth the hideous facial burns you suffered?

I heard someone on the radio recently, and they were discussing Richard Hammond’s 300 mile an hour jet-car accident, and they said, I kid you not, “If this makes just one person act more responsibly on the roads, then maybe it will have been worth it”.

Excuse me?

Do you think Mr Hammond is of the same opinion? I’ll bet he’d quite happily see a whole raft of teenage scrotes wrap themselves and their XR2’s around various lamposts in order to get the full use of his brain back.

What I want to know, more than anything, is who this one person is, and what is it that is so fucking special about them that they’re worth untold suffering around the world?

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