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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
What makes you say it's "how our brains are wired"?
Call me selfish but when a famous musician recently died I thought, "damn, now I don't get more of their good music" and really thought nothing else of it.
I think a large part of it is that people want to be part of something. Like the Humboldt tragedy. Or the ALS bucket challenge. An unreasonable amount of money was donated to those because of the 'popular' nature of them when there are millions of equally deserving recipients of those funds that don't get a cent. While there are obviously benefits I think it's a really stupid part of culture these days.
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As someone who has a family member with ALS, your comments are extremely ignorant. The Ice Bucket challenge raised a ton of money... none of it unreasonable that pushed research ahead quickly and was directly responsible for at least one new drug on the market to slow it down. The sad part of it is that it was a flash in the pan and now fundraising has declined to the point where research is pulling back, specifically because ALS doesn't have the name recognition of Cancer or Heart Disease.
Very short sighted, ignorant view of the world.