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  • Zelsabriel@beehaw.orgEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    We don’t get to pick and choose who’s lives have value, even if they do something risky or stupid.

    But isn’t that exactly what happens? Was there as much of a rescue effort to find the hundreds of missing Pakistani migrants who went missing off the coast of Greece last week? Was it even as widely covered in the media as 5 missing rich people in a sub? Have you even heard that they were missing before this comment?

    What about the 5,000 missing and murdered indigenous women who disappear every year? Are we mobilizing the military to find them?

    We absolutely pick and choose whose lives have value. That’s the problem.

    • root@lemmy.belclayfer.netEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Have you even heard that they were missing before this comment?

      How could anyone who’s been on beehaw in the last few days not have heard about the Pakistani migrants?

      How could anyone in this thread not have heard?

      We absolutely pick and choose whose lives have value.

      I don’t know who you mean when you say “we”. If you mean governments and power structures then yes, I agree and it’s one of the biggest flaws in our society. If you mean individuals, then yes, some people do, but it’s wrong to do so whether it’s billionaires, migrants, or anyone else. And I know a lot of people have a hard time with this.