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Originally Posted by djsFlames
The reasoning for it may be a little stupid (because often nobody actually knows the celeb personally) but the inherent desire to want to come together with people in a way that transcends the usual differences isn't stupid at all. It's in our nature. Maybe we're grasping for legitimate reasons to do so without realizing it, or just experiencing a sense of empathy from a distance in a way, but maybe tragedies like these are serving as reminders of how much we separate ourselves from our fellow man when we are taking such things as life and our overall well being here for granted. We're all cut from the same cloth and when a life is taken we remember that again, and that is the positive you can draw from ####y and sad things like this.
So yeah I think it is about wanting to be a part of something, and in these cases it is humanity bonding through humanity.
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Well that's a very optimistic view and definitely one to hold onto.
But I think it probably has more to do with the 'high school complex' of fitting in. If people legitimately wanted to empathize with tragedy there are ~250,000 deaths in Canada every year that they could lend themselves to, be it financially, emotionally, or what have you.
I guess it just annoys me how much self-back patting is going on with these things. Like, wow look at what a great empathetic human I am being sad when everyone else is because it's the cool thing to do. Goes along with the bamboo straw ideals I guess; look how much I'm doing to save the environment (as long as it's convenient and makes me look good)!