About the murder of Trayvon Martin.

[BlueIris]

3. I respect your opinion.

And I am heartened to hear someone say that a tragic death like this may have a silver lining in terms of the good it could do for our society.

But I really don't love it when people here try to rationalize terrible trauma like this with comments like "it was part of that person's life contract." Even if you believe it to be true, that isn't going to make the pain his family is going through any less awful. For the rest of their lives, his family and friends will live with the grief of his lost life. That should not be forgotten, glossed over or rationalized because of a personal insight about a spiritual element of the world.