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Seriously. 180 people crashed in an airliner. Even for HN, have a little compassion.

• WaxProlix 7y ago
  Absolutely, it's easy to lose sight of it from such a vantage point.
  • larnmar 7y ago
    To be fair, none of those 180 people, if they had lived, would have cared if I died. 150,000 people die each day, of whom 50,000 die of causes not labelled as “age related causes”. If I died in a non-newsworthy way, nobody outside my own corner of global society would know about it; the fact that some random individuals you don’t know happen to have died in a slightly more newsworthy way today probably shouldn’t change how you feel about them, versus the other 50,000 or so premature deaths for the day.
    • dotancohen 7y ago
      Why is this downvoted? For lacking compassion? This is one of the few truthful comments on this thread, which is otherwise full of speculation and rumor.