11-15-2015, 07:05 AM
(11-14-2015, 08:53 PM)RepentantSky Wrote: Yes, let's forget the bombings that happened the day before, the Earthquake that Japan has to deal with which could have caused damage and death, honestly, because of Paris I can't find out anything about it. Also, while we're at it, let's pretend that 20 people weren't injured in bus crash at San Francisco and 7 of them are critical. ISIS news trumps all! Look, I am not for a moment going to act like we shouldn't be thinking of Paris at this time, or say that what happened there wasn't awful, but it's just as awful for everyone to forget or act like things didn't happen elsewhere at or around the same time, regardless of the reason why.
No offense, but that's one of the worst posts I've read on this forum. It's not that people are forgetting, it's that the scale and scope of some events only reach and/or resonate with a certain group of people. It's not possible to know every single event, and even if some people didn't hear or react to an earthquake in Japan, it's not that people are "pretending to care" or are forgetting...I shouldn't really have to explain why ISIS news does in fact, "trump" other news out there.