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This is inexcusable, this is madness. So, you're worried more about a few dead people rather than all those people you never heard of dying in hospitals, in mo
by kiba 14y ago
This is inexcusable, this is madness.
So, you're worried more about a few dead people rather than all those people you never heard of dying in hospitals, in motor accidents, and other cause of death? They are someone's aunts, uncles, sons, daughters, friends, lovers, etc.
Maybe we should connect our emotion to the logic rather than the other way around.
- bane 14y agoNote:I know I promised to swear this thread off, but I'm unbelievably pissed off rather than being insulting and getting personal, I'll direct you to this part of the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579814
- reader5000 14y agoSo the logical thing is to ignore mass murderers until their body counts approach deaths from cancer.
- tiredofcareer 14y agoThe trap is applying logic to being human, when humans are illogical by our very nature. kiba is doing it, and your poignant extrapolation of that logic demonstrates why we "can't think through this one, we have to feel it," as the film quote goes. She was right in that scene and the observation equally applies here, just with slightly different antagonists for the discussion. Too many engineering types try to apply logic and data analysis to the human experience and it just doesn't make sense. You can't meaningfully talk about death in numbers unless you are counting deaths.
- bane 14y agoYou can't meaningfully talk about death in numbers unless you are counting deaths. And by then you've lost the point.
- tlrobinson 14y agoNo, ignore them until the "cost" of ignoring them outweighs the cost of doing something. The question is how to calculate those costs.