So here’s the messed up thing, right? Back when Unsafe at any Speed was published, auto fatalities were at a high rate and climbing. And there’s a theory that says when fatalities-per-year reach a certain level, then a significant % of people have lost someone they knew.
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But we have all these mass shootings now reaching into that segment of American life and... nothing. Like, people are motivated, sure. And the gun lobby is strong. But the car lobby and tobacco lobbies were strong, too.
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There’s an essay I talk about sometimes about school shootings and it posits that the issue from the shooter’s perspective isn’t a lack of a sense of right and wrong, but an apathy to it.
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I think we need to look at that framing from a cultural perspective, too. It’s not that there’s a lack of morality here. It’s that we, as a society, care less about dead people than we do about warrior fantasies that breed violence.
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And it makes it so much easier when they take their own life. “Welp, he was just sick! No cultural problems here!” We have an entire generation coming up for whom mass violence feels like an expectation, not an anomaly. When do we figure out that this is a problem?
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