It would appear that our news media must consider the innocent lives of those that are killed my ISIS in the middle east are much more important and have a higher (news) value than the 22 veterans that commit suicides (on average) every day. Collectively, we have some 40, 000 people commit suicide every year.. about THREE TIMES the number that die from drug overdoses.. yet how many times have you read about all those suicides as opposed to how many times that you hear about deaths from drug overdoses ? I guess our society’s moral compass more quickly points toward murders than suicides. While both are illegal.. how does our justice system justify its existence with suicides.. who do you throw into jail… have to hire an attorney and who is the prosecutor going to charge and take to court ? Maybe the body resulting from a suicide can generate only so much media attention.. unless that body had drugs in their system and our judicial system has someone to blame and our judicial system can “go after” .. the person that sold or otherwise made the drugs available.
Filed under: General Problems
This has to stop.