Explosions at Boston Marathon
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My view on this whole thing is its no more important that a bomb attack in a foreign country or just a mishap that did some damage anywhere.
I do find it interesting that so many people clamor to it. It's like a hot topic to discuss for a national team. However i'm not sure it is about that national tribalistic instinct. I think it is just a matter of being able to empathize with something closer to home and feeling lucky it wasnt us. There's pleasure felt when seeing something horrible to others, probably why news operates on such stories for ratings. And I think the fake concern and attention people give to isolated events like this when their is worse stuff, is a false show of concern out of guilt. They feel guilty that it was someone else and not themselves. And they group together validating each others false concern.
I feel as much empathy to the boston folk as i do any other person or group worldwide who had shit luck. But I cannot see it mattering any more than what i might want for dinner. Does tragedy striking someone I do not know really have an effect? I did not know them, i will now never know them so they might as well have not existed. The only incentive in viewing such things is to selfishly feel im luckier or better than someone else. Their life is more fucked up so i can feel better.
Seems strange. Not sure if it has always been this way or just more apparent with increased herd mentality of social media outlets. But i really wonder how many people could honestly say that a person they didnt know and didnt care about is now gone or injured matter more than what they're having for dinner when this stuff happens everyday.
But i do have to say i found it buzz worthy and entertaining from the regular flow of things. Like a sports game or superbowl. It had that media attention to make it seem special and who doesnt want to participate or watch something that seems special and partake in a vicarious fashion. Im just disappointed that i felt it.
- major issuesfadein11
- wow, what a thunderous cunt you have made yourself sound...cruddlebub
- Major issues because i see as one life i have no vested interest worth the same as any other life without vested interest equal?deathboy
- interest? Id say you have issues feeling the need to add value. Much like racial value. Just be honestdeathboy
- or whatever. my honest opinion. take it for what it is and try not to let it hurt your worldviewdeathboy
- ya he's dead inside...pango
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- well your name fitsfadein11
- I appreciate db's raw honesty, i might have felt like this once long ago I admit, but once imoldero
- had a daughter and felt pure love everything changed in me, and I mean everythingmoldero
- I can easily put myself in others shoes, people of the world are generally good, were pretty much all the same with the same goals, we just want to live comfortable and love, thats itmoldero
- we just want to live comfortably, and love, thats it, thats all we need, seeing people get blown up and putting myself in their loved ones shoes with what i know now is intensemoldero
- loved ones shoes is intense. no worries DB, i hear you man, but views will change as you growmoldero