Is it bad I don’t get sad over Famous People’s Deaths?

You seem to be very confused. You said the media wasn't talking about a kid getting murdered then you say the kids murder was all over the news. You feel nothing for strangers being killed but you're OUTRAGED because someone told you to be upset over a militarized police force that can murder at will and get away with it? So if you don't give a shit about the actual deaths then why the f are you clutching your pearls because someone allegedly gets away with it?  Are you afraid the militarized police force is going to come after you? Why would they? Most cops are morons too stupid to do anything else so where are the secret spy black op cops coming from that you're so terrified about?  Not being facetious I'm curious.  

 As you already know, Gameboy, I'm Catholic. If or when Pope Francis -  or more likely, - Pope Benedict XVI die, I may feel a tinge of sadness for either one of them. I really felt strongly when Pope John Paul II passed away 15 years ago.

That said, when Princess Diana was killed in a DUI accident 23 years ago, Mother Teresa died a week later. The mourning for Princess Diana was far greater than that for Mother Teresa.

 (To be fair, though, Princess Diana's death was a complete shock because a)she was young, & b)she was chronically in the media, from the time of her engagement to Prince Charles all the way up to that fateful night 16 years later. Mother Teresa, while definitely a great Saint, & it was sad to lose someone as great as she, her death was not shocking, as she had died of natural causes & she lived to an old age.)

I was just messing with you specifically. Lol

Sorry I hurt jokers wild.

Ps I never missed work when the Pope died.

No you're confused, my aunt said the media wasn't talking about the kid's death. She goes on Facebook and sees hundreds of ditto-head memes saying the mainstream media is not talking about this kid's death but if you actually bother to Google the kids name you'll see it got plenty of attention. But really she and other dittoheads want to use the family's tragedy for political purposes, as of some sort of statement against BLM, and that's pretty disgusting. As for the rest of your post, pffft, you only have rights as long as you exercise and protect them. So you may be willing to give up your rights but I'm not.

I also graduated in 1975, and I can attest to the truth of this observation...though I wish it weren't true. I wonder, though, how much of the perceived increase in callousness, along with the corresponding decrease in caring, is due to the explosive rise in the social media--a concept and an entity which in 1975 did not yet exist as we know it. People on the Internet, thanks to their seeming anonymity, often feel free to say the most outrageous--sometimes completely untruthful--things, not caring who or how deeply or how many they hurt. I remember in the days of the original IMDb, whenever a star (or even a relatively obscure actor) died, along with those expressing feelings of loss and sadness, there would be one or two posters who would say negative things about the deceased--including horrible things that couldn't possibly have applied to that individual--just to stir up trouble and to hurt other people's feelings. That type of poster to me exemplified trolling of the nastiest kind.

So far, I haven't noticed much of that sort of viciousness here on IMDB, and I hope I never do. Of course, having withdrawn from the Politics board has certainly helped that avoidance.

The death of a famous person whom I had never met, never had any real expectation to meet, but whom I felt I knew, for better or for worse, that affected me most deeply was that of John Lennon. I was an atypical Beatles fan, having succumbed to my own form of mania in my mid-teens, in 1969, less than a year before they officially broke up, and though my favorite was Paul, I always took an active interest in the other three...all of them felt like friends, even when one or more of them would do something I considered stupid or embarrassing (which would provoke me to wail, "Oh, no, John/Paul/George/Ringo--how could you do that!"). Was this a mature attitude? Of course not—I was probably a good illustration of arrested development. But I loved them. I never bought any tie-in merchandise such as wigs or bubble gum or boots (after all, by the time I got into the whole Beatle "thing," it was almost over), but I always enjoyed reading about their adventures, and I cared about them. I still do. I'm still a sucker for "click-bait" articles about their wives and/or kids.

When John was murdered, I cried. For about a week, I would cry, or at least choke up, every time I would hear one of his songs, whether by the Beatles or by him, solo, played on the radio… and they were played a lot for quite a while after his death.

I find it astonishing (and depressing) that before the end of this year, John Lennon will have been dead for as many years as he was alive.

So no, though I certainly don’t judge people who don’t feel sad when a celebrity dies—they probably have a more adult approach to life than the rest of us, lol—I can also understand the people who do mourn their favorite celebs…especially those who produced art that moved them in some way.

Sarge

You seem to be posting about reacting to deaths of people who are known only because they were killed.

This thread seems to me to be more intended to be about people who we "know" because they are famous for some reason other than just being dead.

The majority of what you wrote was about recent on the street killings , not deaths of celebrities or famous people . I think that most people don't react to the killings of thieves and murders with the same feeling as the death of someone they feel they "knew".

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