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I like the way your immediate response is to try and make these deaths abstract again.
by Angostura 2y ago
I like the way your immediate response is to try and make these deaths abstract again.
- nathan_compton 2y agoI don't think that is a charitable read of the comment. The point, I think, was to cast into relief who gets this treatment and who does not.
- AYBABTME 2y agoPeople aren't surprised that crappy overloaded rafts sink. But they're surprised that top-of-the-line yachts sink in a minor squall. It's not confusing to me why one is more noteworthy than the other, technically. The wealth of the loss of life isn't really what's the difference here.
- closewith 2y ago> The wealth of the loss of life isn't really what's the difference here. It's the only difference here. Otherwise, people would be wondering why some people boarded overloaded rafts to begin with.
- Angostura 2y agoThe comment I objected to appeared to be slapping down someone who has personal knowledge of one of the victims.
- closewith 2y agoPlacing in context, not slapping down.
- reedf1 2y agoOne death is a tragedy, ten thousand deaths is a statistic. Human psyche is built to understand death this way, don't pretend we are not. They are merely alluding to the fact that there are many millions of impossibly sad and tragic deaths daily. Why do we choose to care about some and not others? Abstraction is a necessary mechanism.
- redmajor12 2y ago-attributed to Stalin