Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

I think so. I prefer the sung version, though. I practically cheered when I heard it. My friends -- non-readers, all, this time -- were all like "????" Also Meereenese knot, lololol.

 

Typical, I learn about this stuff on TFN. But damn, I know lots of people in the Marathon, so hopefully they're all fine. Same with the people I don't know.

 

Facebook's on fire -- heard that the device was loaded up with ball bearings, so effectively like grapeshot. Whoever did this wanted to hurt as many people as possible. Sick.

 

So's Twitter. Oh, and Youtube can go **** itself.

 

I'm sure there are already a bunch of inhumane videos up.

 

There were two explosions at the Boston Marathon today. At least 2 dead, nearly 30 injured.

 

Two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon; two confirmed deaths, dozens injured. Lots of blood.



...and now the stupid comments include those from a "friend" on facebook who insists the best response to this tragedy is to not feel any empathy for the victims because it doesn't help them anyway, and besides it's what the perpetrators want.

 

Luckily I'm actually from around Boston, and so are the majority of my facebook friends, so I probably won't see any such comments there.

 

The argument is that: the people responsible want her emotions and her reaction, but they don't deserve it. I asked: I understand the argument that getting attention is what these people want, but don't the victims deserve some thought? I said that there is a cost to letting yourself become inured to suffering Her response was, essentially, that her emotions wouldn't help them, but asking questions and getting something done would, and that besides there are victims suffering from crimes every day and emotions get in the way.


I find that... really hard to stomach. Like, on a deep level. There's a huge value to just caring and being there for people, and in tragedies like this uniting is of inestimable value. I can get the argument that yes, someone needs to do an investigation and find the answers to it but that doesn't solve the problem for those people who have lost loved ones. They need support. And you can't fight evil by just killing it, or arresting it: there have to be people who rebuild and recover, and people who teach our children that this isn't the way.

To hear this kind of thing from someone who's a friend of mine is really sickening to my stomach.

 

So much for that. One of my NY friends seems to think there's a connection between this and Sandy Hook.

 

I've heard a lot of people say that. I hope it's not the case, but information's going to be totally unreliable right now so there will be a lot of wild speculation running around.

I guess, but that's not the sense I got from that comment, in relation to my response.

Here's the line: "There are victims suffering from horrible crimes every second of every day. For me, emotions get in the way. And the victims will get more from something being done or questions answered than just my empathy."

That's not tuning it out because the world is full of suffering -- that's straight up not caring.