[PREV - DRAMATICS]    [TOP]

COMPARATIVE_DEATH

                                             January   7, 2013

Are their lives so empty that they need
to adopt someone else's troubles to feel
connected to humanity?

The plight of people shot to death in very dramatic,
but fairly rare (even now), "spree killings" is thus
a pretty abstract problem for me, much like, say,
the several hundred children that have been killed         It would be really
in Obama's drone attacks in Pakistan.                      cool if we would
                                                           give them all
                                                           the same weight.
       I don't watch television news...

       If you're jacked into a CNN IV,
       I think it does something to
       your percerption of the
       world... the way they hammer
       away at the Top Stories-- the
       bleeding leads-- and yet skip
       other blood as though it's
       meaningless, it becomes this
       weird enforcement mechanism
       keeping your worldview in sync
       with the masses.


    We've just spent months discussing
    methods of reducing 11k of gun         And a lot of the things
    deaths per year, and we continue       on the table don't actually
    to give a free pass to the ~45k        sound that effective at
    of car deaths.                         reducing the 11k.

         THE_GREAT_CAR_THREAT


--------
[NEXT - ADDRESS_THE_PROBLEM]