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"help the victims grieve"... maximal moral unction... When an event like this touches your life, very few stimuli from outside your own personal bubble of pain
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
"help the victims grieve"... maximal moral unction...
When an event like this touches your life, very few stimuli from outside your own personal bubble of pain and confusion have any chance of registering with you [1].
But having the national paper of record print headlines half-excusing your friend or family member's killer [2] because she's the right kind of people would definitely do it.
[1] Some people express surprise that there are other people "out there," still going about their lives as if nothing had happened.
[2] allegedly.
- joe_the_user 17y agoWhat does "half-excusing" mean? Or... In what way was does describing the factors influencing a person's behavior excuse it?
- narag 17y agoIn a pressure cooker the vapour has not many options: going through the security valve or making the cooker to explode. I don't think that's an accurate "description of factors", unless you take into account the killer is crazy, in which case the most important factor is precisely that.