Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:
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If "impact on your life" is the relevant criterion, then it seems to me Wong should be focusing on the broader mistake of watching the news in the first place. If the average American spent ten minutes caring about e.g. the Trayvon Martin case, then by my calculations that represents roughly a hundred lifetimes lost.
You have a funny definition of "lost". By that measure, JRR Tolkien is worse than a mass-murderer.