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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
Possibly. When it conflicts with our comfortable ideology we humans seem to have quite a tolerance for atrocity. The Sandy Hook school shootings were just two years ago last Sunday and they barely got a mention in my part of the US.
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I guess repeated exposure to such things dulls the shock value of it. Which brings us back to Jeffs comments earlier and the comparitive reactions between Americans and Australians over yesterdays events in Sydney. For an American it's just another day at the office, for an Australian it's pretty shocking.
That, or it's the age old situation of an unstoppable force (massacre of children by guns) hitting an immovable object (in the US the 2nd Amendment, in Pakistan the ISI/governments links to the Taliban and their reluctance to persue them).
