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Tragic loss of a B-17 at an air show

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lakeboredom:
A historic airplane is more important than a person they didn't know, yeah.

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noisyturtle:

--- Quote from: lakeboredom on Sun, 13 November 2022, 17:43:56 ---A historic airplane is more important than a person they didn't know, yeah.

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I could not disagree more, but people these days are exposed to so much horror many are desensitized and callous.

tp4tissue:
The cost of a human life vs a plane..    if we refer to the market,  each plane costs thousands of human lifetimes worth of resources and labor to produce,  so technically they are worth significantly more than any "singular" human life.

As for desensitization/ callousness. I guess that depends on what aspect of humanity you're referring to.

fohat.digs:

--- Quote from: noisyturtle on Sun, 13 November 2022, 18:29:03 ---
--- Quote from: lakeboredom on Sun, 13 November 2022, 17:43:56 ---
A historic airplane is more important than a person they didn't know, yeah.

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I could not disagree more, but people these days are exposed to so much horror many are desensitized and callous.

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To be absolutely honest, being relentlessly bombarded by hysterical anti-abortionists for years on end has made me do a lot of soul-searching. And rather than having the effect of "sensitizing" me I have - yes - become what you would probably call "desensitized" ....

I have come to the conclusion that, in the grand scheme of things, individual lives of individual persons (much less embryos and fetuses!) are just not all that important relative to this aggregate "thing" that we are all a part of. Which is not to say that horrors such as wars and terrorist killings are not horrible.

At this point I have come to think (the best ultra-simple working description would be to say) that I perceive the Planet Earth to be a single living organism of which we are each a very small part. And our parts can be healthy or unhealthy, even up to the level of fast-growing cancers.

Further, I have come to think of "personhood" as something that we grow into (some cultures do not really consider children to be full persons until they are 1-2-3-4- years old) and which we can also fall out of. Which of the mammals in the photo below would you consider to be more "good" or "valuable"?

 

Leslieann:
Gotta love the internet where something you didn't say is taken to be more important than what you did.
"I like cheesecake"
"Oh, so you hate chocolate cake, you're such a jerk!"

It was a technical comment, yes, it sucks for their families and it's not that I don't feel bad for them but is this the right venue to express it?  Were your feeling personally hurt or are you just trying to cause a scene? Stop being so performative.

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