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[Madshaw]

its a british newspaper selling to british people, why shouldn't it gear its stories towards brits? people in britain are far morelikly to know/careabout another british person than any of the other 223 people, im not saying its not tragic that they died, but the britsh are going to care more about the britsh deaths

i think thats the point reall. its how hitler got soo powerfull - no one cares about anything that doesnt affect them directly until it does. we let him do terrible things in germany but didnt bother to intervene until we realised that he might just be some kind of threat. thats an analogy by the way im not saying this is exactly the same just that your argument is a sympton of whats wrong with society in that why shouldnt we care about any life just the same regardless of country of origin? what if there was an aussie on the plane but he lived in england, would that be more interesting than an aussie who still lives in austraila? or less than a british resident who was born here?

hitler got powerful because people where persuaded to hate jews, the newspaper is simply highlighting the brits and ignoring foreigners, its not hating anyone and i think there is a bit of a difference between hating people and just not giving as much of a shit about them as you do for other people

 

[Nemo from Utopia]

its a british newspaper selling to british people, why shouldn't it gear its stories towards brits? people in britain are far morelikly to know/careabout another british person than any of the other 223 people, im not saying its not tragic that they died, but the britsh are going to care more about the britsh deaths

i think thats the point reall. its how hitler got soo powerfull - no one cares about anything that doesnt affect them directly until it does. we let him do terrible things in germany but didnt bother to intervene until we realised that he might just be some kind of threat. thats an analogy by the way im not saying this is exactly the same just that your argument is a sympton of whats wrong with society in that why shouldnt we care about any life just the same regardless of country of origin? what if there was an aussie on the plane but he lived in england, would that be more interesting than an aussie who still lives in austraila? or less than a british resident who was born here?

hitler got powerful because people where persuaded to hate jews, the newspaper is simply highlighting the brits and ignoring foreigners, its not hating anyone and i think there is a bit of a difference between hating people and just not giving as much of a shit about them as you do for other people

youve missed my point, did you actually read it to the end? where did i mention hating anyone?

i meant that that was how hitler go so powerfull without any other country intervening, it was just an anaology and wasnt the basis of my argument. my argument was maybe it is the case that people are more likely to care if a story is about a fellow briton or whatever becuase it may affect them in a round about way or if not affect them then at least it is someone you can relate to more or whatever becuase you speak with the same accent; but just becuase this is the case does it make it right? that we care less about people who arent from our town, or county, or country or whatever. should this be encouraged and fostered? you may argue 'yes', or that im completely wrong but thats my opinion.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Dont take this the wrong way, but i only really care about the ones from my country and even then barely at all. Its not really necessary to provide details on johnny foreigner in another country.