Right. Man, this thread just reminded me of the old days (for me) hanging around on the Darwin Awards forums when they first opened up a decade or two back.

There have been endless arguments about what should qualify or exclude someone from consideration for an award. The existence of existing children doesn’t exclude one from getting an award because death by stupidity still prevents you from having any more children. But getting your own kids killed due to your own stupidity does though. The children didn’t cause their own deaths (or sterilization), and that is one major key to winning an award, self selection.

If anyone cares, there are actual rules at the forum that have been getting hashed out since this all started in usenet groups in the mid eighties.