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I was making a general observation about the human condition. Like, when there’s an airline incident, there’s an investigation, an NTSB report, and the FAA usually issues a rule change in response. When a driver runs over a pedestrian, it barely makes local news, and even then, the headline is usually about the traffic delay.
Some things we treat like tragedies, but much of the time, we treat human life as basically worthless.
Funny thing: when they started taking airline safety seriously, they looked for a number that was so unthinkably high that it would representa the worth of a human life. They settled on a million dollars because that’s so unmeasurably high. They forgot to account that number for inflation and never bothered to fix that. Now airplanes start falling from the sky again…
Same argument. If you stop treating every death as a tragedy people will stopvaluing life. I agree with your observation, just not the nature of people. If we start caring again that might bring back what we value.
It’s a tragedy every every time.
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You imply I am racist, xenophobic and a police/state violence sympathizer for calling the death of any human a tragedy? How does that make any sense?
I was making a general observation about the human condition. Like, when there’s an airline incident, there’s an investigation, an NTSB report, and the FAA usually issues a rule change in response. When a driver runs over a pedestrian, it barely makes local news, and even then, the headline is usually about the traffic delay.
Some things we treat like tragedies, but much of the time, we treat human life as basically worthless.
Funny thing: when they started taking airline safety seriously, they looked for a number that was so unthinkably high that it would representa the worth of a human life. They settled on a million dollars because that’s so unmeasurably high. They forgot to account that number for inflation and never bothered to fix that. Now airplanes start falling from the sky again…
Same argument. If you stop treating every death as a tragedy people will stopvaluing life. I agree with your observation, just not the nature of people. If we start caring again that might bring back what we value.