RobertLumley comments on Open Thread, December 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobertLumley 20 December 2012 12:35:43AM *  7 points [-]

These things are huge triggers for me. It drives me mad that society has the reaction it does when this event killed as many people as die every eleven seconds. If we had a proportional societal reaction to all deaths, maybe we'd have solved the problem by now.

Edit: I accidentally the math

Comment author: [deleted] 20 December 2012 08:24:23AM 6 points [-]

Yes! I really liked this tweet from Thom Blake on the matter:

Something tragic happened today: every 10 seconds, another 18 people died.

Comment author: RobertLumley 20 December 2012 10:28:54PM 0 points [-]

I did too. I think I retweeted that.