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Post by Moose on Jul 25, 2016 22:42:59 GMT
Cos I am sick of the human race.
19 disabled people hacked to death in Japan by some maniac who wanted to 'rid the world of the disabled.'
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Post by Elis on Jul 26, 2016 6:38:08 GMT
That sounds awful. Have there always been that many maniacs and we just hear about them more or is it getting worse?
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Post by Mari on Jul 26, 2016 7:50:24 GMT
We hear more about them. They were always there. As Tangent pointed out in another thread, there are shootings in the US on a daily basis, but because it happens so often, it's not in the news so much. Here we are not used to it, so it sells, so the media pounce on it. And because we now have access to the entire world, you hear it from all over the place. But only the things that newspapers will think will sell. You don't hear about the plight of the refugees in your own country, you hardly hear anything about Syria or Kenya, etc.
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Post by tangent on Jul 26, 2016 8:18:40 GMT
Yes, that's right, there have always been horrible things happening, we just hear about them more now.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 26, 2016 8:54:12 GMT
Oh what a relief. I thought you meant 'we the members of EF have no moral values'.
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Post by spaceflower on Jul 26, 2016 16:31:54 GMT
Terrible but nothing new. Remember Dr Harold Shipman, how many did he murder? And I've read many times about nurses who murdered their patients. The motive seems to be "They are better off dead". And we have the Swedish orderly Anders who killd off 24 elderly patients.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 28, 2016 12:33:20 GMT
On the day this story happened, there were also some particularly bleak stories happening here in Oz (involving shocking mistreatment and torture of youths in detention in Northern Territory, and hospitals killing babies with the wrong gas). So the news anchor goes "with all these terrible stories this morning, you may have missed the story about the old man with dementia getting strangled by his carer". In case you missed it because of all the bad news, more bad news happened.
Anyway, I had to avoid tv and social media for a couple days after that. I seem to be feeling better again now and can handle news again.
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Post by Moose on Jul 29, 2016 22:00:59 GMT
Humans are just so .. odd. I mean there are so many nice ones but so many whose only purpose seems to be to spread misery. No matter how long I think about it I don't 'get' it.
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Post by tangent on Jul 30, 2016 10:14:20 GMT
With 7 billion people on the planet, it only takes one in a million to be bad to have 7000 bad news stories every few months or so. The problem isn't so much people as our connectedness, our thirst for news and the media's thirst for our money from the news.
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Post by Elis on Jul 30, 2016 18:25:30 GMT
On the day this story happened, there were also some particularly bleak stories happening here in Oz (involving shocking mistreatment and torture of youths in detention in Northern Territory, and hospitals killing babies with the wrong gas). So the news anchor goes "with all these terrible stories this morning, you may have missed the story about the old man with dementia getting strangled by his carer". In case you missed it because of all the bad news, more bad news happened. I have the feeling we miss a lot of news which are not considered interesting enough for us here. We hardly ever hear anything about Australia or New Zealand - and Frank has family in New Zealand. But the last time we got any news from there was when there was a big earthquake.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 4, 2016 23:15:15 GMT
Even here in Australia we don't get all that much news on New Zealand - I think it's because not much actually happens most of the time. I wish they would balance all the bad news with good stuff that humans are doing, to show a more balanced world.
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Post by yooperguy on Aug 22, 2016 3:07:42 GMT
Good stuff doesn't sell.
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