RE: Again, terrorism is war.
You don’t have to tell me that. People react to terrorism emotionally in a different way than other kinds of death.
Why do people for instance react to the Boston marathon bombing where less than 10 people died?
But in terms of statistical data relative to the population base, I would say this is more significant in percentage terms than those who died in 9/11.
As for this: “There’s almost certainly more doctors dying in car accidents and nobody is talking about that either.”
I’m not sure about this “more doctors” thing. Did we have a study on that showing that this is so?
As for this being a “silly” story, not sure if I can call it that. The article is simply telling us that more people in that profession are killing themselves maybe compared people in other professions. This is a very interesting factoid. It would be interesting to know WHY this is so IMHO.
Well terrorism is an attack on our way of life. It’s a worthy thing to react to. Also there’s a clearly defined bad guy in that.
Just the way the numbers work. Auto accidents are generally a top 5 cause of death, so most others are going to rank lower.
It’s the “and no one is talking about it” that makes it silly. That phrase is generally used to try to declare something a problem that we’re not paying enough attention to. But I don’t think the math supports that language. It’s a high stress profession, with a high level of opportunity for other life problems (like addiction). I would expect the suicide rate to be higher than the general population.