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Boston Explosion
Wayshow:
I was planning to go and check out the marathon.... So relieved I didn't.
This is just messed up. I hope they catch the perpetrators soon
His Lordship:
No doubt it's highly unusual. We're on the same page.
That's definitely why it's making world headlines rather than a mass shooting that happens every so often.
Question: Is it a good idea to prioritise our attention, allocating it to the most unusual attacks?
Two people died and it's making world headlines.
There is no hate in me, but I feel so bad for the (on average) 85 Americans who will be killed by a gun TODAY, silently.
I am asking for a lot: a change in priorities. I'll say no more because death is death and this is still a tragedy.
Keith:
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--- Quote from: His Lordship on April 16, 2013, 12:15:17 am ---I don't want to feel like a douche, but this is really unfair attention compared to many other deaths.
I'm not talking about war zones and world hunger. These deaths happen in safe parts of the world all the time.
58 people on a refugee boat just drowned off the coast of Australia a few hours ago, by the way.
As sad as I am to hear about this, I feel sorry for other victims who don't get this much support and attention.
No further comment, apart from restating I feel sorry for the loss, and encouraging people to re-calibrate their world view.
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Millions of people die from heart disease every year. 40,000+ people die in America every year from car crashes. It's HOW people die that determine if it's news-worthy or not.
How often does an international sporting event have bombs go off in the crowd?
I agree that every accidental death is a tragedy, but this is an unusual event that has happened.
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Yeah I'd say this is an international scale catastrophe, people come from just about every country in the world. I know you're just trying to point out how people and media suck, which they do. Legit even after this trending searches on Yahoo only listed the explosions at #5 and 30 mins later down to #10, and now it's not even on there. Guess what's on the list?
1 Rodman FBI informant
2 Charlie Wilson dies
3 Baggy pants illegal
4 Rihanna cancels show
5 Space Mountain closed
6 $25 billion offer
7 John Galardi dies
8 R. Kelly Coachella
9 $1B Apple scheme
10 Shooting suspect holed up...
People are dumb sacks of shit.
Creeper975:
If it makes you feel better most of the stuff of the front page of Reddit is related to it and will stay like that for a few more hours.
Flames377:
Its so unbelievable how countries can't stop feuding and have to do things like this. Were not going into their country and blowing up things killing innocent lives. Its so sickening how people can do this.