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Originally Posted by niky
While his work on the "Fast and Furious" franchise has helped to glorify street racing, he's known for sponsoring charities and good causes.
The fact that he died while leaving a fund-raiser that he set up for the benefit of typhoon victims means that he deserves at least that much respect.
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This is where we diverged and got a little political/solicitous. You insisted that he deserves respect for supporting your country. Meanwhile about 35,000 people die every year in car accidents in the US, and we have plenty of other money problems to boot (our debt exceeds our gdp).
And if you buy into fossil fuel driven environment change, well more glorification of cars doesn't help that one bit.
But to say it is unprecedented is also a little naive:
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