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The number's contribution to the emotional impact of the story, far from distorting reality, is next to negligible compared to the part about torture.
by catalogia 6y ago
The number's contribution to the emotional impact of the story, far from distorting reality, is next to negligible compared to the part about torture.
- colechristensen 6y agoMaking a story sensational is distorting reality. The whole problem with drugs and law enforcement is that it has been driven now and in the past by emotional manipulation. Much of it was originally done by stoking racist fears, "reefer madness" and all that. If we were talking with reason instead of emotion, about causes and effects, about mitigating and minimizing negative outcomes, about giving people choices and recovery and ways out and in some cases ways to do things safely... a lot of real actual progress would be made. But that doesn't make sensational headlines, it's not simple or something that people can turn into a succinct cheer. Sensational stories start to be the goal of the government's "war", success measured in how much the story can impress the population. DISTORTING REALITY.