Quote Originally Posted by Rantzien View Post
Edit: Also, more generally on accidents with mass deaths: It's kind of sad that countries as a whole put more worth in the lives of their countrymen than those of foreigners. For example, when the 2004 tsunamis in Indian Ocean occurred, all the headlines in Sweden told not of how many had died/disappeared, but of how many Swedish people were confirmed dead or missing.
Yeah, that bothers me. With wars, too. News headlines so "OH A BAZILLION AMERICAN HEROES DEAD WHAT A TRAGEDY" but they ignore that the other side is losing a whole lot more than that.