We should ask ourselves why it is somehow seen as less of a problem when a person not deemed “respectable” is killed. For one thing, murder is murder. And for another, when a double standard is applied so that a lesser priority is assigned to a criminal thought to be targeting “only” sex workers or other groups of marginalized persons, inevitably this may result in more victims - including those who were not considered targets.
Failing to take murder seriously because the victims are dismissed as socially unacceptable is playing with fire. It’s also wrong because society both uses and condemns sex workers, for example. When we find ourselves devaluing others to the point of assigning a lower significance to their very life, it’s usually because it’s easier than facing up to uncomfortable truths about how these people got there in the first place.
When people get very excited about, say, the name of a new car, they don’t foresee that in a few months or a year, they’re not going to care. They’ll be busy getting excited over some new issue which will also pass quickly. A good name is important, of course, but I’d be mainly interested in how it drives. If it hugs the road nicely and goes through curves smoothly, who cares what it’s called? ;)
Those rubles and yuans would be wasted if not for internet users’ tendency to jump on any myth that suits them instead of thinking logically. Lack of education and critical thinking skills can be exploited in more ways than one.
We should ask ourselves why it is somehow seen as less of a problem when a person not deemed “respectable” is killed. For one thing, murder is murder. And for another, when a double standard is applied so that a lesser priority is assigned to a criminal thought to be targeting “only” sex workers or other groups of marginalized persons, inevitably this may result in more victims - including those who were not considered targets.
Failing to take murder seriously because the victims are dismissed as socially unacceptable is playing with fire. It’s also wrong because society both uses and condemns sex workers, for example. When we find ourselves devaluing others to the point of assigning a lower significance to their very life, it’s usually because it’s easier than facing up to uncomfortable truths about how these people got there in the first place.
When people get very excited about, say, the name of a new car, they don’t foresee that in a few months or a year, they’re not going to care. They’ll be busy getting excited over some new issue which will also pass quickly. A good name is important, of course, but I’d be mainly interested in how it drives. If it hugs the road nicely and goes through curves smoothly, who cares what it’s called? ;)
Those rubles and yuans would be wasted if not for internet users’ tendency to jump on any myth that suits them instead of thinking logically. Lack of education and critical thinking skills can be exploited in more ways than one.