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This whole thing is an absurdly tragic event that is triggering all sorts of trollish behavior here. It is very sad, but the resulting discussion about tragedy
by rms 18y ago
This whole thing is an absurdly tragic event that is triggering all sorts of trollish behavior here. It is very sad, but the resulting discussion about tragedy and the meta conversation discussing the discussion of tragedy is just mean-spirited because this whole thing is making people feel very emotional.
Please flag this post and move on, the blogger doesn't deserve the traffic.
- petercooper 18y agothis whole thing is making people feel very emotional. Serious question: is it? I know people are saying things like "It's so sad", etc, but till now I was assuming that it's somewhat in the same vein as people who say "ROTFLMAO" 99% of the time. They're not usually rolling around on the floor laughing out loud, but they want to relay the spirit of as if they were. That is, it is sad that these things occur, but it doesn't affect one's emotional state due to the lack of connection to the event. Few who aren't personally involved in the story are "emotional" about it, right? If they are, I'm intrigued. It shows an interesting cross over between fiction and reality in the emotional lives of some people - one I'm sure has probably already been studied to death by all the psychologists out there.
- rms 18y agoI mean emotionalness in the meta discussion, not sadness about the actual event. "Act emotionally" would have been better to say than feel emotional. People are saying angry things to each other that they probably wouldn't say to each other face to face.
- petercooper 18y agoAha! Well, my questions still stand for anyone bored enough to ponder them, but yes, it seems in the meta discussion it's bit like the Normal Person + Internet Anonymity = Total Jerk comic strip ;-)