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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
What a dumb thing to say. First - who says that people are more worried about this issue. Second - who says that people only have the capacity to worry about one thing at a time.
Sorry but when people say stuff like this it drives me crazy.
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People can care about more than one thing at once. However, we have all kinds of metrics of how much attention a given story achieves in the mainstream and social media. Page hits. Tweets. Re-tweets. Facebook sharing. Emails to the editor. And this story is more prominent than the marines being shot. People in the media will tell you that stories about animals being beaten generate far more letters, emails, and public denunciation than stories about people being beaten. We can speculate and debate about the reason why. But it seems pretty clear to me that the North American public does, in fact, get more outraged about specific, personalized incidences of violence to animals, than incidences of violence to humans. That doesn't mean they don't care about people being beaten or killed. But in most cases they don't get emotionally riled up they way they do about a story of a dog being starved and beaten. It's a curious phenomena, and one worth analyzing and understanding.