WTF IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?

[maninahat]

ok so yeah something im noticing that there are alot of messed up things happening over the last few months, women stabbing sons who wont get off xbox's, criminals being caught because of stopping to play a DS instead of fleeing the crime scene, men stabbing kids to death because of tony hawk. does this sort of thing tend to happen regularily and its just because ive only just started REALLY using the forums, or is this truly as messed up as im thinking it is.

Things are not nearly as bad as the news implies it is. The news does not do reports of perfectly ordinary criminals or families behaving themselves. It will only do exceptional stories ("dog bites man" is boring and common, "man bites dog" is unusual and interesting). Because journalists will exclusively cover odd or negative stories, this creates a false impression that these odd things happen fairly often (after all, there always seems to be one in the news).

Unfortunately, this is when people get misinformed very easily. News present a disproportionate amount of stories about odd or negative things, so for every weird story you read, imagine that there are thousands of untold stories about unexceptional people and good behaviour.

 

[xacto14]

as a great person said "shit happend/happens and people die."

oh, wait i just explained world history.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Humanity is really an extremely interesting species to observe, we have an incredible capacity for evil as well as good. Just remember: For every Hitler there is one Mother Teresa and a Jesus. Also: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".

 

[Wakefield]

For everything that's going wrong there's about a million things going right. But no one reports on stuff like that so you just don't hear about it. Relax, the world is fine.

 

[Caliostro]

does this sort of thing tend to happen regularily

Oh you've seen nothing... It's a mad world we live in.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Nut up or shut up. Horrible things happen. Be thankful they didn't happen to you or your family and move on.

Couldn't resist.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Bad stuff happens, good stuff happens would be a right boring world without either eh?

 

[Wildrow12]

Something bad always happens to someone, somewhere. But for all the focus the media puts on all the awful things in the in the world, for all the criminals and scum, for all the misery and fear, there are many people who are out there making a difference.

There are wonderful things happening.

There are heroes out there:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34820923/ns/world_news-wonderful_world/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34820746/ns/us_news-wonderful_world/


If the world is not to your liking, if you cannot abide by human misery, if you refuse to give in to the venom of apathy, and if you have the intestinal fortitude to live dangerously, then go out and become the change you want to see in the world.

 

[Wildrow12]

For everything that's going wrong there's about a million things going right. But no one reports on stuff like that so you just don't hear about it. Relax, the world is fine.

Word.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

[HEADING=1]Democracy[/HEADING]
Not really.
It's just that the idiots get the media attention.

Democracy works only when the populace is educated. The key is a powerful education system, which sadly does not exist, at least where I live.

http://mises.org/images4/PyramidCapitalism.gif

 

[BlumiereBleck]

blame the democrats like everything else :l

 

[BloodyThoughts]

The world is the world, and the world is fucked up. Something you get used to.

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

See this is why I stopped watching FOX news, if you hear about this shit all the time, it gets depressing! Look for some good people in your life to surround yourself with and forget all this bad stuff.

 

[benbenthegamerman]

Oh, no, it's probably MORE messed up than you think it is.

ED: offended

Nuff said.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Hello, and welcome to the world. Please take your free brochure and board the train of misery. Enjoy your stay!

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Ah, a young boy takes the first steps to beccome a man.

Truly touching.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Shit happens, deal with it.

Now to go more in detail: yeah I'm guessing the news has just started picking up more stories recently because video games are gaining so much popularity. The video game industry is one of the only ones not largely affected by the downturn of the economy, and this means games are being bought. Whatever is being bough will be in the media, guaranteed.

 

[Shamgarr]

It's much easier to be ignorant! Trust me.