(February 5, 2013 at 4:53 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:(February 4, 2013 at 3:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The world was outraged and hopefully like the rapes in India, there will be more growing outrages among the women of the world.
Because American/European outrage is doing a whole bunch in India, is it?A billion people in relatively close proximity, most of them in poverty... relatively nearby to another billion people, many of whom are also in poverty... and another few hundred million people clumped together in asia, a good number of them living in poverty...
Nope, I don't see how rape statistics of these places are related. India in particular has a number of factors going on right now that make it significant... dealing with the symptoms in blind outrage is going to do fuck all for solving India's many problems.
(February 5, 2013 at 8:28 am)Brian37 Wrote: I am like WHAT THE FUCK, what about the school bus driver who was murdered?
You... do realize this has nothing to do with gods, and everything to do with how a culture reacts to its children being threatened with death vs a random bus driver being shot?
Bus driver shot! Not really news for the front page, it's something you'd put in a tiny square in tiny print without an exclamation.
(February 5, 2013 at 3:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Just like Thor does not exist and cant prevent lightening from striking anything, much less a human.
Assume for a moment that he exists. Have you done that? Cool:
Why the fuck would he prevent his father from smiting the living shit out of the random person?
There are so few people hit by lightning per year, that if he IS infact doing that: he's doing a damn good job.
Violet, I am aware of all this. Crime is always going to be a ratio to some degree everywhere.
Quote:You... do realize this has nothing to do with gods, and everything to do with how a culture reacts to its children being threatened with death vs a random bus driver being shot?
Yes that is the real reason people react, just about every species protects its young, not just humans. But that does not mean people need to cling to superstition as a false comfort when their kids do get harmed.
