In the big picture, is the death of the Amish girls really any worse than Steve Irwin's death?

Question

beekay: You figure Amish families spend a lot of time online?

Answer 1

No, not really. More people die everyday than most of us could ever comprehend, and yet I don't much care about all those deaths. If humans were meant to mourn for every lost life, we would never stop sobbing.

Answer 2

Well... how does one measure? The event with the Amish girls involved multiple deaths, is that worse? The person who killed the girls definitely meant to end their life, the stingray was acting (or over-reacting, but still) out of self-preservation. Does that make it worse?The girls wound up living shorter lives than Steve did. Does that make it worse? On the other hand, the girls probably never uttered the word "crikey". I think that settles it.

Edit: By the way, Zero, Will is not an atheist. Nice try at a random bashing, though, keep it up. Very christian of you.

Answer 3

The girls were young and innocent. They were at school trying to learn when this happened. Steve Irwin knew that he dealt with dangerous creatures all the time and that there was the possibility of death whenever he went on an adventure. (I'm not trying to minimize Steve Irwin's death, just trying to point out that he knew the risks associated with what he did for a living.)

Answer 4

They are all very sad. I worked with a lot of Amish people. They are the most benign kind people I have ever met.

Steve Irwin was such a great guy. He died doing what he loved.

Those poor girls never had a chance.

Answer 5

It depends on how big you want your picture to get. On Uranus, it probably doesn't matter a bit.

However, within our human community, having someone live such a mentally tortured life that he cut short 5 young lives and tortured others strikes me as a preventable tragedy, one which we should look to prevent in the future.

Steve Irwin's death was an accident, similar to slipping on a bar of soap. Sad and ironic, particularly given his line of work, but it doesn't provoke the same level of personal and community reflection.

Answer 6

any death is sad. but in the big picture, non of us matter. none of those amish girls would have made a difference in the world. and all Irwin did was make a nice zoo and jump on crocodiles. so no, my death, my neighbors death, some random dude in africa, it doesnt matter.

in the big picture, we are just a number...and that number is our networth.

Answer 7

YES YES Yes!!! it is much worse.
Irwins death was an unusual ACCIDENT
and may or may not have been preventable but...

the little girls were shot, an act of VIOLENCE. By a man who was mentally ill.
Both are tragedies but comparing them is like comparing apples and oranges

Answer 8

Yes!! Steve Irwin doesn't make such tasty food as the Amish people do!!!

Anyway, this was a horrible thing because Amish people aren't as bad as most other cults. I wish the gunman would have shot a more deserving group of religious followers, such as that Muslim Group that is prejudice.

Answer 9

Yes. Steve died tragically, in an accident, doing what he loved.

These Amish girls were little more than babies, terrorized, bound, and executed.

What's to compare??

EDIT: REB said some wise words. Well done.

Answer 10

They are (((all))) a tragic and sad loss.
However, Steve had a job that had many risks. He went into it knowing this each and everdyay that he could die.
The 5 girls who died didnt really have "risks" just sitting in school and didnt anticipate death at school.