What I Learned from Executing Two Men

Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by piva00 on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:49AM (#12530982)

This is not only about saving lives, it's the ethical point of it. Drone strikes are horrible, death penalty is horrible, both can be talked about.

I can't understand why American society has this need for narrow-focus in ONE specific issue at a time, is there a reason for this cultural approach?

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by Practicality on Monday September 19, 2016 @10:36AM (#12531735)

"why American society has this need for narrow-focus in ONE specific issue at a time"

This isn't an American phenomena, it's a human one. EVERYONE can only focus on one issue at a time. It's a delusion that we tell ourselves that we can focus on more than one thing at a time:

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episod...

(That doesn't mean we can't talk about one and then talk about another, which is probably what you meant. But you still have to do one at a time, or make a comparison, you can't just consider all issues simultaneously)

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by coldtea on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:00AM (#12531068)

So it can ignore everything else while business goes on as usual...

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by okwhatthe2 on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:50AM (#12531426)

It is the erroneous belief that every topic, including those concerning human life, can be a relativism.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by VLM on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:21AM (#12531203)

The corporate controlled media likes divide and conqueror as a propaganda technique, you'll see people copying it a lot.

Why do international megacorporations like it so much? Probably some tangential hangover of union busting.

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