(December 6, 2020 at 8:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 6, 2020 at 8:02 pm)tackattack Wrote: It’s that some sort of perspective that I have a problem with. And intentionally emotive one by spurious use of a tragedy just seems in bad taste to me. Why not just say “6 barrack fulls of aushwitz Jews just died yesterday of Covid” ? Or “the Approximately same number of 15-24 yr olds that died in the US of homicide in 2018”
Because those numbers aren't relatable to most people. Most people know what a planeload of people looks like, very few are up on the barracks capacity at Auschwitz or the demographics of homicide from two years ago. If I were to say, for example, 'More people have already died of COVID in just 12 months than died in The Great Hunger in four years', most people wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about.
I don't see how comparing deaths from one cause it to another is spurious or in bad taste. Would you object to the statement, 'More people are killed every year in car crashes than are murdered in the inner cities'?
Boru
I wouldn’t have a problem saying “that almost 8 full airbus 830 died yesterday of Covid “ because it’s not utilizing a recent tragedy for emotive only gain. If the facts aren’t strong enough to stand without emotionalism then they’re not strong enough. Which leads to ignoramus’ very good point...
(December 6, 2020 at 8:15 pm)░I░G░N░O░R░A░M░U░S ░ Wrote: tack, I understand both sides. I don't mind the emotive strategy. Many in the US won't listen to logic, reason and common sense, including Trump. How else to get the message across? You use emotion. It works. Religion is built on this strategy.
Yes, modern religion was built upon capitalizing on fear-mongerIng and swaying opinions through emotive pleas. Isn’t that part of the problem? I also agree that many in the US, and elsewhere, have a problem with reason and that it works. I just don’t personally believe it’s worth the cost.
You don’t help people out of the muck by slinging more muck at them.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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