Not to mention the fact that Isis killed 224 people when they bombed the Russian plane on Oct. 31st and no one seemed to care. When they kill 100 indie rock fans in Paris though, it's time to repeal personal liberties as fast as possible? Why is this incident different than the Russian bombing?
Neither incident should influence policy since as you say, while horrible, there are a lot of other things killing orders of magnitude more people that don't get "addressed" the same way this is.
People need to stand strong and resist the urge to be reactive.
> Why is this incident different than the Russian bombing?
Well its quite well known that certain events create more "buzz" than others.
The plane crash is mostly limited in impact to the bereaved who are probably mourning rather than tweeting. At least in the UK the travel chaos afterwards caused more "buzz" than the actual event itself, perhaps because angry tourists are more likely to tweet/Facebook.
The attacks in Paris directly affected thousands who will have all communicated that experience directly to friends and on social media. It went on for hours and was watched by million. For most people it did have more impact, however shallow that may have been.
I think this is a direct effect of how large the media portray an event to be. MH17 was a much larger 'event' in the media than the Russian plane crash recently (probably due to a bomb placed by IS). The number of casualties were roughly equal.
So I don't think it has as much to do with the event itself rather than with the degree to which the media put it on the front burner and what the nationalities of those involved are. A rule of thumb seems to be that the further east something happens relative to Greenwich the smaller the font will be. Ditto South of Spain. To the media some lives are fairly clearly more valuable than others.
Well, excepting the "freedom fries" nonsense from a while back - the French have never really been portrayed as an enemy of the United States. Russia (and Putin especially) most certainly has. I'm guessing that generally the American population is discounting the deaths of innocent Russians to the same degree that it's discounting the deaths of innocent Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians, Palestinians, Yemeni, etc., etc., etc.
> Not to mention the fact that Isis killed 224 people when they bombed the Russian plane on Oct. 31st and no one seemed to care. When they kill 100 indie rock fans in Paris though, it's time to repeal personal liberties as fast as possible? Why is this incident different than the Russian bombing?
Because it's the French government responding to the Paris attack, and it's the Russian government responding to the Russian plane bombing. That makes a fair amount of difference in the character of the response.
And France currently has personal liberties that could be repealed. Russia? Less so.
Neither incident should influence policy since as you say, while horrible, there are a lot of other things killing orders of magnitude more people that don't get "addressed" the same way this is.
People need to stand strong and resist the urge to be reactive.