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Old 07-08-2016, 12:31 PM   #456
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
If so, I don't know how to explain the much stronger empathy for gorillas and lions. It seems to me that it's a matter of expectation. Peoples' intuitions about horrible violence taking place in the Middle East, Africa, etc. is that "this stuff happens there all the time".
It's also an issue of victim blaming and seeing it as middle eastern people inflicting the violence on themselves. Realistically many of the victims were young children, and I'm not sure how you can say a child in any way willingly participated in the political instability and violence.
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