>just this past weekend 141+ deaths in India due to a bridge
>collapse, 150+ dead in South Korea in Halloween stampede, I
>feel like it was another I'm forgetting...

Why would we care there? Wouldn't that be even weirder??

Note:If people die here from a crime people care. Or if you can blame it on a minority or immigrant. Or if your condo pancakes on everyone and crushes people to death.

But it seems like several times a year there's a stampede or flood during a pilgrimage or a soccer match or something else --and they'll be more next year too.

Also:As Carlin rightly pointed out - the closer the tragedy is the more and LONGER people care. Factor blows up a mile away keeps your attention longer than a factory blowing up 2,00 miles away.

You know does care?? TV news - they played the south Korea thing for several days.

But really what can people do as individuals? Go to South Korea now? Donate money to India infrastructure repair?

I care, but less than some may think is right.

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