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To: nickcarraway

Yeah. I am in a cantankerous mood tonight. Even when I hit “post” I didn’t like the tone. I understand recognizeable names bring trageties closer to home, but we always seem to collectively grieve the big names, while all the regular people are overlooked.


8 posted on 04/25/2015 10:57:47 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Yogafist

>> but we always seem to collectively grieve the big names, while all the regular people are overlooked.

True. But I doubt the attention given to this accident will come close to the prolonged, hyper-emotional attention given to Robin Williams who’s death was intentional and self-inflicted.


14 posted on 04/25/2015 11:42:51 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Yogafist

“...while all the regular people are overlooked.”

I don’t think the regular people will be overlooked. There’ll be a huge humanitarian effort put together to help and care for everyone affected. (Hopefully, the effort will be organized, efficient and effective...and not run by a Clinton.)

But...you have a right to be cantankerous about it. Many folks glom on to these situations to further themselves. My city’s local news organizations would be filing headlines if a local citizen had been killed there. Call me jaded but I think they’d be doing it just to say “Hey, look at us. We’re important. We lost a citizen too!”


19 posted on 04/26/2015 6:26:00 AM PDT by moovova
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