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Should the death of the 6 students be blamed on recklessness?

While agreeing with social media commentators on the need for students to be in school and not lie to their parents that they are in school only for the parents to be shocked upon receiving heartbreaking news of their children’s’ deaths three hundred kilometers away from college, it is self-defeatist for us to pretend to be better than those poor students who perished in the ghastly road crash. I argue that those students mirror the society they hail from. They are our younger siblings, our little children, and a reflection of our own lives.

 

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