[Magdalen] Lubitz.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Allan,
I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying, just with the use of the term "wacko." To me that trivializes and ridicules what is a tragic illness.
It's like calling someone who is developmentally challenged a "retard."

YMMV, of course.

> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:00 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.comke > wrote:
> 
> If he hadn't been mentally iill, he wouldn't have have murdered 150 people.
> I've had three depressed people in my family commit suicide. It happens,
> and should not be ignored in a pilot's evaluation out of political
> correctness. As in this case, many lives may be at stake. Don't their lives
> matter?
> 
>> On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So "mentally Ill" = "wacko"
>> Got it.
>> 
>>>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> With all respect, someone who deliberately flies an airplane with 150
>>> people in it into a mountain is fully wacko according to the several
>>> dictionaries I've just read "A person regarded as eccentric or
>> irrational:"
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
>> <javascript:;>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> David,
>>>> With all due respect, I cringed at your description of Lubitz as a
>> "wacko
>>>> copilot."
>>>> If the emerging reports are correct, he  appears to have had a history
>> of
>>>> depression, which is a disease that can have tragic consequences for the
>>>> individual and those around him/her, as we have seen again and again.
>>>> 
>>>> Responsible for his actions? Yes. Irresponsible in tearing up doctor's
>>>> notes and hiding his illness? Yes.
>>>> "Wacko"? No.  Tragic would be more apt, I think.
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have been curious about this name, so I did some checking.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Since Poland and Germany have been side by side and there has
>>>>> been much flip-flop of boundaries between them through the centuries,
>>>>> it's no surprise that there are German names that have been used by
>>>>> families who are Polish for centuries, and vice versa.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is probably the case with the wacko copilot of the recent plane
>>>> crash
>>>>> in the French Alps.  His name has a Slavic ending "itz" which is  the
>>>>> German/Polish equivalent of -icz, -ich, and -age.  These are all
>> Slavic
>>>>> endings that roughly equate to "son of" (Who can forget blonde beauty
>>>>> newscaster Jessica Savage?).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Despite the Slavic origin of the "itz" names, the "itz" did not  hinder
>>>> the
>>>>> career of the famous Admiral Doenitz before and during WW-2.
>>>>> He was Commander in Chief of the German Navy.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then there was the second German warship of the Bismarck Class,
>>>>> the Tirpitz - "The Lonely Queen of the North" - also named after a
>>>>> German Admiral who commanded the German Navy.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A lot of history is buried in our names.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> David Strang.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Allan Carr
> 
> 
> -- 
> Allan Carr