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Originally posted by wannabenakid247
I also think that its fucked up that women and children seem to be valued more when they die like this. Surely each human life is as specail as another?
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Since when has human life been special? There's fuckin' billions of us. Nothing special about us that I can see. We come along, assuming we run the show, consume resources vastly out of proportion with our needs (especially in the west) and then die.
In answer to the question:
I guess women are valued more for their wombs, and children are valued cos they have yet to contribute anything to society beyond scraped knees and snot. Elderly folks? I guess it's because they've lived a life supposedly full of contribution to society and they deserve a peaceful twilight. Personally, I couldn't give a shit whether the people who died were men, women, children, old, young, British, American, gay, Jewish, or already dead. They died in an earthquake. That's sad, but it's also coincidence. Nothing anybody could have done.