What's the relevance of pointing out race/ethnicity?

[TxSteve]

"12 people were killed including 5 children." It's somehow more tragic that kids are dead instead of the 20-year-old guy and the 30-something parents .

you really don't think its more tragic when children die?
wierdo.

[Duke]

So I was at the store and asked some black dude about this thread. He said he didn't know.

[Lottery Larry]

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People who focus on racial issues, like you, are the ones who bring about racism. People like myself and the OP in the other thread just say "black guy" or whatever as if it was another detail in the story and don't think twice about it.

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LOL

[ChuckyB]

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"12 people were killed including 5 children." It's somehow more tragic that kids are dead instead of the 20-year-old guy and the 30-something parents .

you really don't think its more tragic when children die?
wierdo.

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Compare the pain of a dead 20 year old's parents and a dead 10 year old's parents and tell me that one is significantly greater than the other.

[ChuckyB]

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In the second example, the loss of a child is always going to be more saddening than an adult. Why? Well for starters children haven't even gotten to experience life yet while adults have. Secondly, children have infinite potential while a lot of adults have already "bottomed out" in their thirties. Obviously losing a child or an adult is a tragedy, but the innocence of a child is more saddening and newsworthy, imo.

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But people become "adults" at 18. So according to how newspeople will write, I'm to believe that a 19 year old dying is easier to take than a 14 year old. That never made sense to me.

Plus people in their 20s and 30s have kids. Kids who no longer have parents. That's tragic as well.

When considering the death of one innocent person, I don't think there are significant degrees of "tragedy".

[pergesu]

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In the second example, the loss of a child is always going to be more saddening than an adult. Why? Well for starters children haven't even gotten to experience life yet while adults have. Secondly, children have infinite potential while a lot of adults have already "bottomed out" in their thirties. Obviously losing a child or an adult is a tragedy, but the innocence of a child is more saddening and newsworthy, imo.

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But people become "adults" at 18. So according to how newspeople will write, I'm to believe that a 19 year old dying is easier to take than a 14 year old. That never made sense to me.

Plus people in their 20s and 30s have kids. Kids who no longer have parents. That's tragic as well.

When considering the death of one innocent person, I don't think there are significant degrees of "tragedy".

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Of course the pain is the same for the parents. But for random people reading the newspaper, a child's death is more heart-wrenching than an adult's.

[Blarg]

Yes, but that doesn't mean it's not a little perverse.

[pirateboy]

Didn't read the thread, but I think some people say it because it helps visualize the story.

[NT!]

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Didn't read the thread, but I think some people say it because it helps visualize the story.

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THANKS FOR THAT AWESOME INSIGHT MAN

WOW THAT CLEARS EVERYTHING RIGHT UP

[Blarg]

This thread redefines "nitty."