Death might be natural, but it still hurts to lose someone. Too often, we forget that, especially in an age where we've never been more connected with the outside world and have never been so detached from one another. It's easy to watch death from afar and analyze it, deduce the cause, and assign the blame like professional detectives are paid to do. In a way, this level of detachment is both a curse and a blessing. 

It's a blessing because that level of detachment lets us see through emotion and come up with a logical solution to various problems. For instance, it's difficult to hear the news of children dying in a school shooting. And while we feel for the families and mourn the loss of these little ones, we can, as outsiders, look at what went wrong, learn from it, make adjustments where we can in the name of prevention, and then continue on with our lives. It sounds cold, but we live in a cold reality and the show must go on. Troubles are only over for the dead. 

But the curse is that this detachment can also hamper us in terms of solving the issue, especially with that detachment being paired with an internet connection. The internet has given us all a platform to voice our beliefs and opinions, and when met with the opposition, we fight harder and dirtier than before. You can talk a lot of game behind the safety of a keyboard, where saying awful things can be done way out of punching distance. 

This is why during those aforementioned school shootings, the left was more than willing to point fingers at you, who believe in a Second Amendment and gun ownership. Even before the information came out about any given atrocity, the left immediately pointed fingers at people who would typically be considered right wing. 

I can remember during the San Bernardino shooting that leftists were already putting the blame on white incels. Of course, it ended up being two radical Islamists, and not much was said about it after that. 

This happened a lot, of course, and each time it did, the left was rightfully made fools of. If they were capable of feeling shame, they would've drowned in it.

But they didn't, and kept making that mistake over and over again, and with each story, people felt more and more resentful of the left, and far less likely to take them seriously. I have no doubt that the cultural revolution we're experiencing was partly triggered by the constant blame the left was putting on people who didn't deserve it. 

But the right isn't immune from this either. We saw that very recently after the tragic plane crash over D.C. as a result of a Black Hawk helicopter flying into it. Not long after it happened, rumors began floating around that the pilot was a DEI hire, and soon enough, photos started circulating of a transgender pilot named Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Jo Ellis, who allegedly was the one piloting the craft. 

As people dug into Ellis, it came out that he was heavily anti-Trump and had just the previous day written about depression and gender dysphoria. Many conservatives spread the news around, thinking they'd had their smoking gun. Another example of transgender violence against innocent people, and just one more story confirming that DEI hires are the worst. 

Only it turned out this wasn't true. Ellis wasn't piloting that particular craft. In fact, he's alive and well, and even released a statement. 

Before I continue, I want to make something very clear. 

I completely understand why people would buy the rumor that a transgender pilot was to blame for what would be an intentional act of murder. The sad fact of the matter is that this is a community that has demonstrated violent tendencies, expressions of willingness to be violent, and has claimed lives in the past. 

It's also true that DEI hires tend to be far less skilled and competent than people who earned their way through experience and merit. 

With Trump buckling down on revitalizing the military and deprioritizing anything DEI-related, it's not hard to believe that someone with enough mental illness to be confused about their own gender wouldn't do what other people in that camp have done in the recent past. 

But I'm going to say something that's going to make people angry.

Ellis said in his statement that it's not okay that people attempted to politicize this crash by blaming him, and that neither he nor the families deserve for this to be a political focal point... and he's right. 

We didn't have all the info, and yet, too many conservatives were willing to jump at the chance of it being the people we wanted it to be. We don't even know (as of this writing) if this was an accident, was intentional, or who was involved. Too many out there, however, knew whose fault they wanted it to be. 

We often chastise the left for politicizing shootings, or other atrocities, before the bodies were even cold or the blood had dried. We often bring up the fact that the families of the slain deserve more respect than us fighting over the bodies of their loved ones before they've even had a chance to say goodbye. Moreover, we always end up laughing at them and making them look like fools when they're proven wrong. 

Conservatives should be careful not to become the monsters they fight. 

The truth is, we don't need to jump at these stories or prematurely assign blame. We know that eventually, the evil that the left creates and commits to will bear fruit, and that the people who aren't qualified to run lemonade stands will screw up royally. We don't have to hoard "I told you so" moments. They come to us freely. 

Let the left be the left, but don't be the left too.