tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post7312007453322964125..comments2024-03-19T06:49:20.449+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: casualty figuresKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-21176243146549369382011-03-14T12:13:32.536+09:002011-03-14T12:13:32.536+09:00Understood.Understood.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-64753701837809867152011-03-14T11:54:03.546+09:002011-03-14T11:54:03.546+09:00Since you mentioned Clive Staples Lewis and his &q...Since you mentioned Clive Staples Lewis and his "The Problem of Pain," I was trying to get across the point that a lot of "intelligent people" don't realize that those who happen to be poor and live lives far-removed from ours (Darfur) count just as much as those whose lives we can relate to the most when something truly awful happens in the "first world." <br /><br />Sorry, if I didn't explain myself a bit better before, but judging by the media and the blogosphere, it seems that first world lives count much more than third world ones do. It's not like we actually get a choice as to where we are born on this planet of ours.John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-43217350769605820592011-03-14T10:25:23.921+09:002011-03-14T10:25:23.921+09:00Do those disasters somehow minimize Japan's an...Do those disasters somehow minimize Japan's and Christchurch's? I'm not clear on what you're driving at. If you're lamenting the fact that poor countries generally get less coverage (remember the Bam, Iran quake?), then sure, we agree. But that wasn't really the point of this post, which was simply to focus on the Japan quake/tsunami disaster.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-1026774511398940932011-03-14T10:05:11.471+09:002011-03-14T10:05:11.471+09:00How many died in the recent Haiti and Pakistan ear...How many died in the recent Haiti and Pakistan earthquakes in comparison? It's amazing how fast people forget, especially when the people in question are poor.<br /><br />If it wasn't for George Clooney, how many of us would even know of Darfur and the atrocities that are still happening there?John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.com