John Harrington wrote:
Perhaps you'd care to respond to the challenge I posted a few days
ago:

Name five classical musicians, most of whom are and have been funded
by the "evul gumbint" or by the church, who died of drug overdoses.

At the following URL you will find a table of "rock deaths" compiled
by a rock "music" fan:

http://rockdeaths.mybravenet.com/rdl/rlistN.html

It lists the causes of death of what appears to be a comprehensive
list of dead rock stars, by name, date, cause, etc. Last I checked,
of the 556 deaths listed on this page:

60 are due to Drugs (10.8%)
50 are suicides (9%)
31 are homicides (5.6%)
12 are due to alcohol (2.2%)

All in all, over 1/4 of the rock stars listed died violently or via
some form of substance abuse (not including lung cancer, btw). Over 1
in 5 died by their own hand (suicide or substance abuse).

I invite you to compile a similar list of deaths of classical
musicians. The table covers 39 years of rock history. If you wish,
you may draw your data from the last 400 years of classical history,
over ten times the scope of the above table.

Have fun.

Unless you are claiming the rock music is evil and the cause
of all the tradgedy, then I consider all of the above stats
irrelevant. If however, you are claiming that rock music is
itself evil, then the burden of proof is yours to
demonstrate it (e.g. how do I know that rock musicians who
overdosed weren't just stupid folks with more money then
they knew what to do with? If so, why should this discredit
rock music?).

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M2