Controversy.

Mar 29, 2004 00:28


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badpixie March 29 2004, 06:11:00 UTC
shallow. yes thats a good way of putting it.

how many of us went out and helped look for that poor little girl?
how many of us cared? we care now that she is dead?
your support does nothing now, you can't bring her back.
how many of us saw her missing posters on the subway or gotrains? I know I did. And i know I looked at it and thought, wow thats sad. And thats passive of me, because if i cared I would have offered to help. I would have donated money. I would have done something other than say its sad.

X's and C's are only letters
no govermnet legislation can bring her back or prevent what happened to her from happening to anyone else
no letters to her parents will help

lets stop pretending we care. we live hedonistic lives, we are wrapped up in ourselves, suddenly a shocking piece of news is heard and suddenly everyone is a humanitarian? I think not.

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social_aversion March 29 2004, 14:40:11 UTC
Yup.

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badpixie March 29 2004, 17:27:32 UTC
there were volunteer search parties
monetary donations

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enraged_locust March 29 2004, 18:19:23 UTC
your talking about the majority of people, but what about those who really do care. When Kristen French went missing people didn't just say "that's sad" but I remember people helping trying to find her, raising money and stuff like that (before they found her dead). So there still are people in the world that care. I don't live in mississauga and to be honest I didn't even know about her until yesterday. But when something happens 'in your backyard' it's a little different. There are still people who care and who will help out another.

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badpixie March 29 2004, 18:24:45 UTC
thats wonderful that the community cared that much to help search for kristen french.
i think the point here is that this girl was , and none of the people with these Xs and Cs in front of their names were showing support then. Its only because we found out that she actually died that people suddenly care.
Yes, its appaling that someone would do this to a child. I'm not saying people dont care that a child is dead, however, why did it take the news of her death to get support for her?
I see more people just jumping onthe bandwagon, someone sent you a message to the degree of " missing girl found dead, show support by putting a X or C in front of your msn name"
And people do because, "oh wow, thats awful."
And it is. But the support isn't real support. And its silly to let people lie to themselves thinking they are doing anything

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social_aversion March 30 2004, 03:14:24 UTC
You're both right.

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