(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
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