Stop getting scared by terrorism, a few dozen people is nothing compared to even mundane things like traffic deaths.
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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt didn’t happen to me personally, so it’s fine! Stop paying attention!!
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zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
I mean, I get it, but this is the same logic that is sometimes used for school shootings. It’s abhorrent to ignore a large increase compared to other places just because it is still a small chance, and therefore do nothing.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I like making these less likely, but I know my government’s just gonna pump more money into cops and surveillance rather than do anything effective like making people less disenfranchised and desperate.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
By this logic, every war is safer today than in all of human history, so who fucking cares.
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callouscomic@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Therefore I must pay attention to everything else? People were not designed to be globally concerned constantly.
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He’s not wrong: if the topic isn’t within your circle of control, then worrying over it is just mentally masturbating to disaster porn.
The key is that the advice to ignore such things isn’t about advocating for blissful ignorance like you think it is. It’s that shrinking your circle of concern frees up your focus to grow your circle of control.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think he is wrong because being informed and aware of what has happened in the world does not equate to “mentally masturbating to disaster porn”. We do have a real problem with sensationalized media, but the solution is not to just be uninformed…
I sometimes hear similar logic as an argument against things like funding science research: “Why spend money and time on a deep space observatory? We can never get to those places in space anyway”
callouscomic@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Thank you for contributing better than I could. You said it very well.