Tragedy

[bcholmes]

If I controlled the universe, tragedy would be measured differently. Public response to Nelia Laroza's death, for example, would far exceed public reaction to Holly Jones' death.

Entire communities would mobilize around efforts to ensure that health care is a safe profession. The government would be pressured to change law, change budgets, (change premiers ferchrissakes), to make hospitals better. People would demand inquiries into the history of health care underfunding.

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Re: tragedy

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

as to measuring tragedy -- i think attempts to do so are at best moot and at worst stupid dickwaving. i'd neither want to be killed and dismembered nor die from a communicable disease.

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I guess part of what I was thinking about when I wrote this was my perception of a message that because Holly Jones was a child (an innocent child, if I can wax stormy petrel for a moment), it was especially tragic. I, personally, don't think that way, but I feel like that message is a big part of why there's such huge response to the Holly Jones murder.

Maybe my perception is wrong. Or maybe it's right, and I just have different values than other people. And maybe it's moot. And maybe I don't even have a point that I'm building up to. So there.