Shelby wrote:
I'm not sure why it is. I read that most NTs tune out when a death toll reaches a certain number, so 6 million means nothing to them but they will donate thousands to help a puppy stranded in a flood. Maybe us Aspies can tune in a little better.
That's funny, I'm just the opposite...the higher the death toll, the more it effects me personally. Oklahoma City Bombing - 167 people; oh boo hoo! Some one once even called me an insensitive bastard for saying that, and I didn't mind one bit!
It's when the death toll reaches over a thousand people in any event, then I consider it to be a tragedy. For instance, the Titanic sinking and 9/11...those were tragedies, not those piddly little bombings where less then a hundred people get killed...
No...actually, there was one small thing that really made me sick...several years ago in the UK, a madman broke into a school and killed 11 kindergarten-aged children, then himself. When a tragedy involves mostly children that had barely begun to live...that's what I save my tears for.
Strange, I know...but I feel flattered when people say that I have a weird sense of judgment on what's a tragedy and what's not...