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Originally Posted by chockfullofgoodness
One was a natural disaster, the other a premeditated act of terror. Why wouldn't we talk differently about them?
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Exactly. We talk about the Matthew de Groode stabbing murders differently than we'd talk about a May long weekend car crash on highway 2 that killed 5 people. We talk about the Sandy Hook slaughter differently than we talk about the hundreds of American children who drown every year.
It may be irrational to treat deaths differently from one another, but anyone waiting for the day when we react no differently to a family of four being murdered in their home than we do to a family of four dying in a rollover will be waiting a long time.