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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Why does it matter if some people care about this and it makes them feel sad.
What would you say if people decided to stop caring. What would you say if some one came said on here "oh another soldier was murder today. Well I didn't know him, so who cares?" you'd think that person was an insensitive jerk.
Yeah, so they express their sadness for something they hear about. Why is that a problem. Would you prefer a million threads everyday about the starving children in Ethiopia, or all the people who are dying of AIDS? So that we can express our sadness for all the sad things that are happening in the world.
A member of GC could come on here tomorrow and say that one of their parents died (and it's happened), you might not now the person, but wouldn't you sympathize with their loss.
I just fail to understand why this is a problem for that people are expressing their sadness for one event and not another?
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It's not that I don't regret the loss of the individual. I just think that the media acting in its own best interest sensationalizes these things rather than drawing attention to the larger problem.
Take your example of a young person dying in Iraq. Okay, let's expand and look at what they were doing, why they were there, etc. Let's not just read that 6 more soldiers died today.
My beef is with how the news is presented -- like Laci or whoever this was are the only ones that this sort of thing happens to.
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