One 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 alludi

One 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.