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Originally posted by ktsnake
Don't want to sound insensative again, but why should anyone who doesn't personally know these folks really care? If it were not in the media, you wouldn't care. So you care because it is?
There are many sadder and more violent situations that happen every single day. The media does a good job of bringing attention to the fact that these things tend to happen. But misses the boat on saying how unfortunately common these types of things are.
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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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