Blue Angels plane crashes
TheSmokingGnu writes:
And the fact that the two are separated by 60 years of history, two
major wars, countless smaller police actions, and an enormous paradigm
shift both in how the media covers a story and the role society expects
and accepts media coverage has *_ABSOLUTELY_* no bearing on that, right?
Right.
Or that the two had completely opposite purposes, right?
Right.
You're treading dangerously close to Godwin's Law.
I'm recognizing death for what it is, and the value of life for what it is.
Lots of people die. My relationship to them does not determine the importance
or unimportance of their deaths. At least I recognize that, and I do not try
to rationalize any preferences I may personally have in order to deny their
injustice.
They only asked that you not be an insensitive lout. That was, obviously
enough, too much.
Are they the same ones who clamor for the killing of people they consider
their enemies?
"One death is a tragedy; a million, a statistic". Heaven forbid that a
group of pilots should care when a highly-skilled member of their ilk
perishes doing his job more than the deaths of unrelated college students.
They are welcome to care. It's only when they try to pretend that they are
not showing favoritism that there is a problem. Certain deaths may be more
important to them--but that doesn't make those deaths more important
objectively, and if there is insensitivity in anything, it is in denying this
reality.
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