When I was little, I learned that like 100,000 people died daily. I was seriously disturbed by this, but nobody around me seemed upset. When 9/11 hit, my parents told me 3,000 people died, and I was like "but 100,000 people died today anyway, why are you so upset about only 3k?"
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In the literal sense of "proportion," where you do division, it's accurate to call this disproportionate. Obviously there are good reasons to be more upset about murder than old age.
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I was horrified by 100k people dying *every day*, but nobody else was horrified by it. I assumed, then, that people dying all the time wasn't something we should get upset about. I was a kid, remember.
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Given that 100k die on the entire planet, 3000 people dying in a very short time, locally concentrated, you should have seen that by your own logic, this was a disproportionate number of deaths.
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