I was raised by a pack of tree-hugging, violence-hating liberals.

I couldn’t play with guns as a kid, and the evening news is more offensive to my family than any Tarantino splatter-fest.

As a result of this, I tend to be a bit over-sensitive and saddened by events that don’t happen to me directly.

However, I will run the risk of appearing to hate everything to point the finger at Comcast’s Internet home page for being sensationalist and offensive this last week.

Since I signed up for Comcast Internet service, not only did they decide to make their website my home page, but flood it with stories I couldn’t care less about.

This last weekend, however, something really grabbed my eye: a story about high school football players that died on the field recently.

These events are certainly a tragedy, and since I have friends who played for years in high school, they are also worth watching. You never know when you will get information that could help somebody, and I will always click on something that might discuss post-concussion syndromes. It could save a friend’s life.

Yet in the video, Comcast shows a couple highlights from a game, and then repulsive footage of a clearly deceased athlete being carried off the field by means of a stretcher not once, but twice.

I understand sensationalism is like a car wreck on the interstate that everybody stops to watch, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere in the sand on this issue, and I am pretty sure that showing a dead high school athlete on your home page is pretty far past that line of good taste.

I beg of you, Comcast, don’t let your lack of morality drive you to do something like that again.

I understand that football is a violent sport, and that is partially the reason why I love it. Yet when I am going online to work on homework, I don’t want to see a video of a deceased teenager being wheeled off the field as his teammates sob. There is nothing to be gained from those images; all it does is cause people to be unnecessarily depressed.

As my tree-hugging mother would have said, “That’s somebody’s baby out there!” I beg of Comcast to use better judgement the next time they are presented with something so gruesome.