2007-01-29 05:23:01 · 12 answers · asked by Daniel R 2 in Sports ➔ Horse Racing
I meant Darfur
2007-01-29 05:47:56 · update #1
The same reason we care more about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears panties or "whose the better singer the guy from afi or panic at the disco??" Why do we not spell things correctly? Why do we talk in incomplete sentences? If you are looking for the answers here on Yahoo Answers (a newly glorified "discuss" feature if you ask me) then you won't be likely to find them. The answer though is because that is what the media is crafting us to do. Some might say it works in some ways like what Marx would call False consciousness, it gives us something else to focus our energy on while the real problems swell.
2007-01-29 05:29:54 · answer #1 · answered by Kurt J 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because Barbaro had a face and a story that we all knew and followed. We would go insane if we cried or got sad every time we heard bad news about Darfur, Rwanda, Iraq, murders in our own cities, disasters. You wouldn't be able to cope. The people in Darfur seem so remote to us, that all we can really do is feel bad about it for a while, maybe write our Congressman, or donate money for aid. It's so overhwhelming and seemingly hopeless that we can't get our minds around it. Some people are so affected by it that they join the Red Cross or some other organization and go there to help out.
It's the same reason we all got caught up in the Laci Peterson tragedy - we all got to know about the pretty woman who was pregnant and disappeared before Christmas. But we don't cry when we read about another murder in the city.
2007-02-01 11:56:10 · answer #2 · answered by sandand_surf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you actually know about Darfur? I'm guessing not a lot, you just hear the word and think you can parlay it into a successful trolling opportunity on Yahoo Answers now that the message boards are gone. What do you think the US should do about Darfur? Do you think this government is capable of performing a self-disinterested intervention that will actually help the people there, and do you truly feel that's what they should be doing?
2007-01-29 14:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Edward K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess only humans matter to you, being a part of a "supreme" species. Humans by nature are an ethnocentric species.
There are animals that suffer just as those people do. Something needs to be done in Darfur, just as something needs to be done about Animal abuse.
2007-01-29 13:42:20 · answer #4 · answered by Souris 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because those people were evidently horse oriented - if you knew how much work goes into these animals, you wouldn't take it so lightly. I'm a horse person, so, yeah, I would care more about the horse, too, than a foreign conflict that has no impact on my life whatsoever. Sorry, but it's true.
2007-01-29 13:32:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
so true,
If he were my horse,he'd have been put down May 20 06 on the track. He was kept alive because he won the derby and had a high stud fee.
Darfur is actually something we can do about.
2007-01-29 13:26:15 · answer #6 · answered by barfield4ny 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You should start by spelling it right
There are no real ways to answer that. Sometimes humans are touched by the strangest things. It hits a cord in them. Who knows for sure. Why is that a bad thing?
2007-01-29 13:32:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Psst! It's spelled "Darfur".
2007-01-29 13:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by togashiyokuni2001 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because we're here and not there, Clooney is trying to do something unlike you.
Stop the jealousy, it doesn't look good.
2007-01-29 15:23:20 · answer #9 · answered by At Last WC2010 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What has one to do with the other? And WHO says we care more about one than the other?
Methinks you're just trying to stir the pot with the dirty stick.
2007-01-29 13:27:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋