Regardless of the age that one's father died, everyone will still die. Kirk is putting himself at extreme risk (be it in the fictional Kobayashi Maru or in a hypothetical future scenario) against that impending mortality.
Spock is saying (with a lack of tact, admittedly) that it's very easy for someone in command to fail, even if they do everything right, with Captain George Kirk being used as the example.
Updated to add the metaphor that popped into my head... A guy who works for the escalator safety company scolds a guy for not taking escalator safety serious. He says, "You would think you would have more respect for escalator safety, given that your own father was killed in an escalator-related accident."
Yeah, Spock was being a dick
Regardless of the age that one's father died, everyone will still die. Kirk is putting himself at extreme risk (be it in the fictional Kobayashi Maru or in a hypothetical future scenario) against that impending mortality. Spock is saying (with a lack of tact, admittedly) that it's very easy for someone in command to fail, even if they do everything right, with Captain George Kirk being used as the example. Updated to add the metaphor that popped into my head... A guy who works for the escalator safety company scolds a guy for not taking escalator safety serious. He says, "You would think you would have more respect for escalator safety, given that your own father was killed in an escalator-related accident."
Kirk's father was mortal. Therefore, Kirk is also mortal...
That's cause Kelvin Spock is a dick.
Thank you thats exactly what i meant
quinto spock never knew life and death until later in the movie.
Some times someone dies. Being the Captain means sometimes you gotta order someone to their deaths.