Designate 'heartbreak' for more appropriate assignment

On recent drunken violence and harassment in Dodger stadium, Dr. Charles Steinberg said, "It breaks your heart when the smallest of numbers seem to ruin it for some people."

• A better use of the term 'breaks your heart' would be to describe a terminal illness befalling a child, not drunken behavior chosen of free will with implied acceptance by team/stadium executives.
• Drunken and abusive behavior toward paying customers in a confined area is criminal and preventable. Even describing the Virginia Tech massacres as 'heartbreaking' overlooked the more important point, that they
• easily could have been prevented.

If one's heart is broken, one is a passive, helpless victim subject to random evil. In some cases this is true, but not in the case of behavior among paying customers to a ballgame. Nothing against Dr. Steinberg, as he's reflecting an increasingly passive, helpless, wimpy culture and he wants to be seen as 'compassionate.' The LA Times article, reluctant to call the crime what it is, favors words like 'intemperance.' (sm)

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