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I'm not saying it is. Just putting it into context. If we want to save the most lives, perhaps we should focus on the political choices which are killing the mo

• piva00 10y ago
  This is not only about saving lives, it's the ethical point of it. Drone strikes are horrible, death penalty is horrible, both can be talked about. I can't understand why American society has this need for narrow-focus in ONE specific issue at a time, is there a reason for this cultural approach?
  • coldtea 10y ago
    So it can ignore everything else while business goes on as usual...
  • VLM 10y ago
    The corporate controlled media likes divide and conqueror as a propaganda technique, you'll see people copying it a lot. Why do international megacorporations like it so much? Probably some tangential hangover of union busting.
  • okwhatthe2 10y ago
    It is the erroneous belief that every topic, including those concerning human life, can be a relativism.
  • Practicality 10y ago
    "why American society has this need for narrow-focus in ONE specific issue at a time" This isn't an American phenomena, it's a human one. EVERYONE can only focus on one issue at a time. It's a delusion that we tell ourselves that we can focus on more than one thing at a time: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episode-one/ https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episod... (That doesn't mean we can't talk about one and then talk about another, which is probably what you meant. But you still have to do one at a time, or make a comparison, you can't just consider all issues simultaneously)