Mxsmanic wrote in
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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.



you're an idiot.


Bertie