"I'm dying..."
Sep. 16th, 2004 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheLJ is playing silly buggers with me, and even when this has appeared in my own journal, it isn't showing in any of my friends' views. bastard. So, I'm posting this again. This is the reference version. Any previous versions of this post will be deleted.
Once again, Mr. Harris has a point. The problem is not just that people are being slaughtered by the score, it is that, as far as can be seen, no-one cares.
A journalist was killed, along with 60 other people; executed for the crime of being too close to a dead tank. The story was that, for this massacre, there was live video footage of a reporter dying.
No mention that a rocket came out of nowhere, with no warning, into a crowd of non-combatants, and killed many of them. 'Oh,' might say some, 'but they were dancing on the tank, celebrating an American defeat!' Well, yeah. That carries a mandatory death penalty now? Better get out the nukes, then, because to properly chastise the proportion of the world's population that wants to see the US put back in its box, you're gonna have to go wholesale.
Outrage overload means proportion is lost. The story, such as it was for ten seconds on the 6:00 news, was that a reporter was killed. Not that such bloodbaths are commonplace and routine. The story, much like My Lai, was not the crime, but that they got caught committing it.
Once again, Mr. Harris has a point. The problem is not just that people are being slaughtered by the score, it is that, as far as can be seen, no-one cares.
A journalist was killed, along with 60 other people; executed for the crime of being too close to a dead tank. The story was that, for this massacre, there was live video footage of a reporter dying.
No mention that a rocket came out of nowhere, with no warning, into a crowd of non-combatants, and killed many of them. 'Oh,' might say some, 'but they were dancing on the tank, celebrating an American defeat!' Well, yeah. That carries a mandatory death penalty now? Better get out the nukes, then, because to properly chastise the proportion of the world's population that wants to see the US put back in its box, you're gonna have to go wholesale.
Outrage overload means proportion is lost. The story, such as it was for ten seconds on the 6:00 news, was that a reporter was killed. Not that such bloodbaths are commonplace and routine. The story, much like My Lai, was not the crime, but that they got caught committing it.
