[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..yeah, I do get your point Ian, that maybe they wouldn't have cared about us, we'll never know...but I think when something so tragic happens so 'close to home' it will always have a greater impact in that it's similar to our own personal worries etc...like, if there's something extremely worrying to yourself and it absorbs you etc, but you know that in comparison to someone else's worries, it's of a 'lesser importance', like oh, there are so many people worse off than me, so that makes me feel better...but it doesn't work like that, does it..it's not that we don't have empathy/thoughts of other things in the world, it's just that it would be too 'weighty' for any human to constantly take in the world's tragedies and the awful things and things 'closer to home' are always going to effect us more/have a greater impact....

I think it makes people like Ben feel better all of a sudden. If a helicopter crashed on my next door neighbour's house sure I'd be devastated. If a heliocpter crashed on my wee friend's house in Buenos Aires sure I'd be devastated.

A disaster in Glasgow means not much more to me than one in Ben's vaunted "Kenya".

My pal from Germany put it into perspective - there was a bad road crash on the Autobahn last week and 12 died. They actually did put the Glasgow thing on their news but didn't keep a vigil on the autobahn and reported real news as well.

If a helicopter crashed on a site 2 miles from someone I knew from the internet, not so devastated - shoite happens.

To get it fed from BBC24/Sky News was lazy TV journalism.