Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed

Pluralist ^ | 15 Aug 2018 | Michael Sinkewicz

[GraceG]

"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans."

A progressive young American couple was killed in an Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack last month while on a bike trip around the world.

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, who were both in their late 20s, quit their jobs in 2017 to embark on a trip around the world. Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian, decided that they're were wasting their lives working.

"I’ve grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige,” Austin wrote on his blog before he quit. “I’ve missed too many sunsets while my back was turned. Too many thunderstorms went unwatched, too many gentle breezes unnoticed.”

The couple documented their year-long journey on social media until it came to a tragic and gruesome end in Tajikistan, a country with a known terrorist presence.

[justa-hairyape]

Well, guess you can fix stupid.

[kiryandil]

I’ll bet we can guess their support for Obama, Hillary, Bernie or all three, in some form or another.

Crap. This means they'll both be voting in the November election...

[raybbr]

I’m truly disgusted by the lack of compassion on FR over this.

[Blue Jays]

"...millennial glasses..."

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Totally agree, Governor Dinwiddie.
Honest-to-goodness one can identify a leftwinger from VERY far away by glasses, garments, and haircut.

[Rummyfan]

"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans."

I think they learned otherwise. The hard way.

[BradyLS]

Ah! I now understand the difference even better!

Vegetarian: “Are you gonna try egg salad made with unfertilized egg white?”

Vegan: “I wouldn’t dare!”

[Rummyfan]

My idea of seeing the world is seeing it while staying in five-star hotels, dining at the best restaurants, and yes, traveling in style. Not biking through a Third World muslim country with no history of the civil society, where you 'll stand out as an infidel like a camel in the middle of the desert.

[Rummyfan]

Good thing they were wearing their helmets.

[matthew fuller]

Of course it’s a joke- she doesn’t have a hyphenated last name.

[HotKat]

Their families 🙏🏻

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And he dragged his girlfriend down with him, too.

[nickedknack]

Co-nominees for the Rachel Corrie Pancake-Flat Muzzie Lover Martyrdom Award.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I knew Timothy Treadwell. He was a very nice person.

[BradyLS]

I’m sorry they were were killed. I hope their killers get the justice they deserve. I just think the lesson they learned they could have been learned at home and they might have survived it to learn from it.

[JudgemAll]

I wonder if setting up a charitable organization to sponsor trips for fools like this would work at colleges.

[JudgemAll]

Yeah, they did not even try to prove that “not all Syrians are like that”, no, they specifically said there was no evil in Syria. Unbelievable. And this is probably due to their hate of America. Behind every charity crap like this, you can bet there is a genuine hate of the poor and taking care of their own country

[Lurker]

“Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans.”

Nope.

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[matthew fuller]

I’ve never heard of her last name before, but in the picture, she sure looks like she was Jewish (IMHO). Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it is just one more reason that their plan was somewhat in need of adult supervision.

[KittenClaws]

It’s sad really. They look like nice people.