Because it was 3000 people EXTRA, all murdered together. That's bad no matter who they are. It's why war, and the 20000 killed on one day on the Somme in WWI was so horrible.
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People don’t think “oh my god, 3k extra”. Horrors happen everyday around the globe and a single fallen plane or terrorists attack make the day just a tiny bit worse.
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I think it was that they all died in one or two spots, where the 100k are spread out globally which makes it easier to swallow.
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It’s more the fact that simply dying is something that, unfortunately, happens to all of us eventually (at least until medical science finds a way to halt the whole aging thing) while being murdered by other people is not.
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Because when 3,000 people are murdered in a fairly unique way at one time by a mere handful of people while the nation sees it happen in real-time on the television, the emotional impact is, unsurprisingly, different (as are those deaths).
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Now check the number of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan - you can pretty much calculate an exchange rate, 1 American civilian life = x foreign civilian lives - but remember, the war on terror isn’t over yet
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I very much relate to your thought. Unfortunately stats don’t move most people, stories do. Bertrand Russell wrote beautifully “The mark of a civilised man [Human] was the capacity to weep over a column of numbers”
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it is a true story? i didn't see it as cool and edgy. At the time my parents explained it away and i accepted it, but i do like the theme of kids questioning why we're disproportionately upset at some things.
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