Inside New York's 9/11 Museum

Like most museums, it will only have emotional significance to the people who went through this ordeal directly (so New Yorkers for the most part).

For most of the people I know (obviously non New Yorkers), they aren't really interested... it will be passingly interesting to the people who know very little about this event, so mostly people born after 11/9/2001...
 
ToxicBunny said:
Like most museums, it will only have emotional significance to the people who went through this ordeal directly (so New Yorkers for the most part).

For most of the people I know (obviously non New Yorkers), they aren't really interested... it will be passingly interesting to the people who know very little about this event, so mostly people born after 11/9/2001...
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What I thought about when seeing this is the disconnect between body count and the emotional impact it has. 2996 people died in the 9/11 attacks. Meanwhile more than 100 000 people have died in the Syrian fsckup, yet the tones people use to describe these events are way different.

Genocide neglect, I think the phenomenon is called.
 
Its about the media portrayal... Syrian fsckup is happening in a back water country that nobody in the 1st world cares about really, 9/11 happened in one of the most famous cities in the world, was broadcast live etc etc etc...

I'm sure if you sat someone down who has no idea of either event, and explained them in plain and objective terms, they would be considerably more horrified at the Syrian fsckup than 9/11.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Its about the media portrayal... Syrian fsckup is happening in a back water country that nobody in the 1st world cares about really, 9/11 happened in one of the most famous cities in the world, was broadcast live etc etc etc...

I'm sure if you sat someone down who has no idea of either event, and explained them in plain and objective terms, they would be considerably more horrified at the Syrian fsckup than 9/11.
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But I think most of us have a generally objective and informed perception of both situations, yet the reaction is still lopsided. Context is everything, and I get that an attack of that scale in a city of New York is a standout event and the ME is broken in general, but it's still an interesting phenomenon.

A unique and terrifying phenomena found by psychologist Paul Slovic in which it shows that the amount of empathy we feel is related to the number of people we see in need (in relation to people who are in trouble/starving/etc.), but not in the way that most people would think. It seems to run the reverse.

Take the commercials we often see requesting aid for starving children as an example. We're shown a picture of a single starving little girl and are asked, "How much would you give to help this little girl?" Our empathy seems to be at a peak and we donate as much as we're going to donate. Again, we're shown a picture of a little boy and asked, "How much would you give to help this little boy?" Again, our empathy is at a peak and we donate as much as we're going to. Now, if you care about the little girl and the little boy, you should at least care about them combined as much as you do for them individually. This is not the case. The more people we seem to add to something like this, the more our empathy drops and thus the amount we're willing to give up to attempt to help.

This explains why we can essentially ignore a genocide in Rwanda but be captivated by a trapped little girl in a well. (Not suggesting that all of us do, but we can ignore it in large part)
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http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm7303a.pdf
 
Well, South Africa is mainly made up of a terrorist colony where the most inhabitants are indeed terrorists approving such actions against other countries. There are a number of other international terrorists finding harbor here in SA, planning operations, executing operations and that with the assistance of local terrorists.

So, comments like 'I don't care', 'WTF', F@ck them', etc. will come naturally mainly due to the terrorist nature inbred in many South Africans.
 
House said:
So, comments like 'I don't care', 'WTF', F@ck them', etc. will come naturally mainly due to the terrorist nature inbred in many South Africans.
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That is a very broad statement and an insult to most of us who consider ourselves as South Africans.
 
House said:
Well, South Africa is mainly made up of a terrorist colony where the most inhabitants are indeed terrorists approving such actions against other countries. There are a number of other international terrorists finding harbor here in SA, planning operations, executing operations and that with the assistance of local terrorists.

So, comments like 'I don't care', 'WTF', F@ck them', etc. will come naturally mainly due to the terrorist nature inbred in many South Africans.
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WTF are you actually on about?
 
Please, it wasn't thermite, it was an internal plot by the US government and they had rigged the entire building to implode (and none of the thousands of workers in the buildings had noticed this work)
 
OrbitalDawn said:
What I thought about when seeing this is the disconnect between body count and the emotional impact it has. 2996 people died in the 9/11 attacks. Meanwhile more than 100 000 people have died in the Syrian fsckup, yet the tones people use to describe these events are way different.

Genocide neglect, I think the phenomenon is called.
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