Source : @caitoz
I know that it’s because saying something with anguish or surprise means that it rarely happens, but this sentence striked me by its truthfulness.
Source : @caitoz
I know that it’s because saying something with anguish or surprise means that it rarely happens, but this sentence striked me by its truthfulness.
If it’s so obviously stupid, then your argument is… ?
Why do we not find strange that we shouldn’t say with anguish “there’s been a bombing !” for something happening in the Middle-East, but only in the west ?
The anguish isn’t the confounding factor here. No one’s saying you shoudn’t care, there is no ingroup mentality etc. You just didn’t specify a place. That’s literally it.
If you said, “there’s ice cream,” I also would assume you meant somewhere close.
As i wrote somewhere else, the aim of my post would have stayed the same if i titled it :
« If you tell someone “There’s been a bombing in the Middle-East !” with anguish in your voice, they wouldn’t care nor be surprised as much as if it’s in the west. »
Such claim wouldn’t be less true. It still seems to me more linked to the word anguish and our lack of care than to the absence of a location(, but ok, w/e 🤷♂️).