Alligator doesn't like taste of children

[Nepsotic]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-hotel-florida

Nah it's totally understandable why people are more outraged by a Gator killing a kid than all those kids who die sewing our clothes and picking our cocoa beans for 6 cents an hour.
Gives them something to do. If they weren't they'd probably just be sat around playing videogames all day. 6 cents goes a long way in Bangladesh.

[STM]

That's a bit of a contrived point to make, Nep. The article says nothing about 'outrage'. All I see is two distraught parents who want the body of their son back for burial. It's a freak accident and a baby is dead for it.

[Nepsotic]

I'm mainly talking about how this is one of the top news stories right now, it's been on a few homepages. So many people are distraught over this kid's death, some people are blaming the parents when that's vile because they did everything the could to save it, nobody was told there was Alligators in the water and they almost never attack humans anyway. Some people are blaming the Alligator when it's a fucking animal driven by nothing but instinct. People are searching for some one to blame, some GREAT EVIL which is working against them.
Well guess what? Most of the time there is nobody to blame. This was just a freak tragedy that happened, and it happens a lot.

However, there is somebody to blame for the slave children working insanely dangerous jobs for hours on end for about 6 cents an hour. You! You're responsible! Fuck my underwear is probably made by a bunch of Chinese kids but I still bought it. Nobody's outraged about that, they just keep buying it. So do I, but it's the hypocrisy which drives me mental.
Nobody cares about the innocent people and children who die from a US drone strike (which kill mostly innocents). Nobody cares about the kids who die picking cocoa beans for your Hershey's Kiss even though the blood's on your hands. Oh wait, that might just be melted chocolate.

Again, I'm not exempt from this. I never claimed to give a shit, but the people who do are the same people who cried about the death of the Gorilla and it's like you're all just a bunch of hypocritical cunts.

Also there's nothing like a good provocative thread to get this place all lively again.

[Phylum]

The best part is that the media still wins if they make people feel this way. Even if you think their reporting of one child-death to an alligator is ridiculous, the fact that it made you feel enough of anything to discuss (rant about) it is why it's a top news story.

[Holy Sock]

Probably because the latter isn't a "news story", Nep. It's the horrendous conditions of a particular industry but it isn't "news" so to speak unless there's some new revelation or a specific individual's involvement is uncovered or if there was a significant demonstration in those countries that got international attention.

Also, it's more difficult for people in this part of the country to relate to. It's a bit more abstract and it's hard for people to wrap their heads around that type of misery when it's pretty far removed from our own culture. Taking your child to Disneyworld and having it unexpectedly killed is going to feel close to home for many parents and families. It also being this crazy freak accident is going to garner more attention because people do not expect this to happen.

[Nate]

A perfect example of the old quote about journalism: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."

Kids dying in slums and workhouses isn't news, sadly.

[Nepsotic]

Yeah I understand that, it's just the hypocrisy of the people reacting that annoys me.

[STM]

I do agree about the hypocrisy, and that people just want someone to blame. We as a species seem to have this uncanny obsession with simplifying complex events and blaming a single perpetrator.

Gorilla + Explorative child = bad parents
Alligator + Explorative child = bad parents/ bad alligator
WWII = Hitler

[Nepsotic]

Oh yeah, that's another thing. Nobody went ape shit (hurr) at the Gorilla, but they do at the Alligator? What kind of logic is that?

[FrustratedAssassin]

Well for one thing, the gorilla was protecting the kid and the alligator killed the kid.

[Nepsotic]

#NotAllGators

[STM]

Because, Nepsotic, alligators are reptiles and not people and gorillas are big dumb nearly-people. You can't really empathise with a dinosaur can you?

Also, FA, did you actually see the video of the gorilla in action? He was dragging the lad along the floor like a toy by the arm. That right there is how dislocations and concussions happen.

[Nepsotic]

Reptiles are hot and apes are ugly. I prefer reptiles.

Both were running on instinct. That's what animals do, FA.

[FrustratedAssassin]

Also people are irrational.