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Terran wrote:QUOTE (Terran @ Apr 16 2013, 03:01 PM) come on, this pisses me off. i have seen this on my facebook feed several times already. why do we care about 2 dead in boston when there are so many in syria, afghanistan and iraq?

obviously, because there are people i care about in Boston. actual friends and stuff. as do many others who watch western media. clearly it's more relevant to me when something happens a 12 hour drive away rather than somewhere halfway around the world. i am sad for the families of those affected elsewhere but really, that is none of my business. people die everywhere all the time.

12 hour drive for you, 12 hour flight for me but I digress.

I'm not saying we should be making huge headline news about Iraq, I am saying it's sad that so much @#(! happens there that no one really cares if a bomb explodes there one day or not now. It's not just people being bombed, I hear news about another soldier being shot in Iraq/Afghanistan and I think it's sad but I don't even really think about it again and that makes me feel weird especially as one time it happened it was actually someone I knew, I think about that a lot now but at the time when I heard 'British soldier dies in Afghanistan' I didn't even bother to read about it.

I am in no way saying 'why do we care about 2 dead in boston when blah blah blah" and I too have friends and family in Boston.

EDIT: Also this is big news globally, even Al Jazeera have this as main headline while it's hard to even see news on the Iraq bombings.

I think age is a factor also. Not that I'm totally DE-sensitised to this stuff, but as Viscur stated earlier, it would be nice to have only good news for awhile. As an American, the Tele (and the events it reports) has been a constant factor in my life. I can still remember as a child sitting in front of it when they announced that President Kennedy had been shot.{Geezer alert!} Plenty of horrific things happened back then, I think there are more that are closer to home now. You just get to a point that you don't want to turn on the T.V. (or in this case I got the news from Allegiance first), because you don't want to hear about another disaster or mass murder.

/BTW, Reddit has some heart warming posts about all the help going out to Boston.

This is only going to happen more and more. I heard a bomb went off and I was like "...and?"
I'm not going to pretend I care about people that I am not even remotely associated with in any way.
Better them, than me. I need my legs, so I can...not go running. Because running sucks.

Sheriff Metz wrote:QUOTE (Sheriff Metz @ Apr 16 2013, 12:25 PM) This is only going to happen more and more. I heard a bomb went off and I was like "...and?"
I'm not going to pretend I care about people that I am not even remotely associated with in any way.
Better them, than me. I need my legs, so I can...not go running. Because running sucks.

With a heavy heart I must agree, yesterday a 7.8 earthquake hit the Pakistan border killing 35 people and 27 in Iran
Venezuelan riots killed 7 and injured a couple 100
Somoli terrorists killed 30(more reported elsewhere) and threatened for more violence
That's not counting the massive IEDs that went off in Iraq killing 33 before elections

It's a cultural thing that we 1) interpret death as a "bad" thing
and 2) feel obligated to feel bad when people in our own country die

tens of thousands of people die every day. we *know* that. we don't care, or pretend to care.
1 person dies in our country, it's a tragedy.

why should I care? I'm not going to *miss* them, or something, if I didn't know them.
people die, it's part of the natural order.

if you feel bad it's because YOU feel bad, it has nothing to do with anyone who was actually killed. they're dead. they don't give a $#@! how you feel about it.

a giant $#@! you to all of those making political statements, jokes, etc. regarding such a senseless and tragic event

I'm saddened by all deaths, life is a precious thing and enough bull@#(! happensthat humanity can't control, I don't understand why we do more to ourselves. Yes we are becoming desensitized as it is happening more frequently, the worst part is that it doesn't bother us that it doesn't bother us anymore.

My wife has a friend who was there with her young son. Bomb squad diffused a device right next to where they had been standing.

Adaven wrote:QUOTE (Adaven @ Apr 17 2013, 05:42 AM) My wife has a friend who was there with her young son. Bomb squad diffused a device right next to where they had been standing.

I'm confused. I've read from several places now that there were no additional devices.

Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Apr 17 2013, 05:09 AM) I'm confused. I've read from several places now that there were no additional devices.

That's because the media makes @#(! up at will.
There could have been 0, or 20, who knows.