In an absolute sense 100k is massive. But it's not particularly useful to think in absolutes. It's more useful to think in relative terms, because relativity sc

In an absolute sense 100k is massive. But it's not particularly useful to think in absolutes. It's more useful to think in relative terms, because relativity scales, absolutes do not scale. "300 people died" Is that a massive amount of people? Hard to tell without knowing the relative context "300 people died out of 1.2 billion in India due to prions" vs. "300 people died in an airplane crash. There were no survivors" One of those 2 things will probably result in outrage and calls for policy change/investigation, the other probably will not.