Explosions at Boston Marathon
Explosions at Boston Marathon
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Bunches of people here in Melbourne calling up talkback radio...asking why this is creating such a headline when the deaths of 50 in a bomb attack in Islamabad creates a scant headline.
My answer to this...the moral outrage is and should be exactly the same. A US, Australian, English or French life is no more important than a Pakistani, Iraqi or Syrian life.
The difference is we can relate to events in Boston...many of us have been there or in similar places. Our family may live there. We may have walked past the same spot. It could have just as easily been one of us.
Not too many of us 'westeners' have been to Aleppo, Baghdad or Kabul so there is a huge disconnect. Doesn't mean the events are any less tragic.
- Difference IS that this is local news. Simple as that.monospaced
- totally agree with the sentiment. got me thinking about how a backpack bomb causes a reported 140 + injuries in boston while...kingsteven
- boston while 20 cars filled with explosives causes 31 deaths/ 200 reported injuries in iraq.kingsteven
- ie. if an attack of this scale had happened in iraq it wouldn't have even made the papers.kingsteven
- Plus attacks on US soil are rare comparatively speaking. You simply become desensitised to daily bombings in Mdl Eastpig
- Difference is the U.S. isn't a warzone.ZOOP