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Man lights cigarette from French war memorial
(www.france24.com)
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Meh. He didn't harm anything. He just broke the rule of, "keep off the memorial."
Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?
Someone in editorial thought "ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks."
Clicks lead to hate, hate leads to the dark side
the dark side leads to nachos. why are we against this again?
Sir, this is not the onion
Serious question for you: I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
I'm trying to figure out if you are saying "This doesn't affect me so I don't care" or maybe, "Memorials serve no purpose" or something else. Cheers,
That's not the point. The point is nothing at all actually happened.
It's the monument equivalent of shouting, "you're ugly" at someone. Disrespectful, sure, but newsworthy? No.
Exactly as I commented. "Ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks."
i went to dallas and stopped by the jfk shooting museum. real neat. real somber. there's a yellow x on the asphalt where he was shot, and every few dozen minutes when there's a break in traffic there'd be a tiktok kid popping out there to get a cheery selfie or video. at first, I thought "they don't quite understand where they are, they're just dumb kids" and then the constant stream (i promise i got it by the third one) of them made me realize they were all ragebating us olds.
You are certainly correct about that, but you and OP haven't answered my question. I really wonder if OP was saying that they wouldn't be upset, even if they had a personal connection to that specific memorial.
My guess with OP's comment was more like they didn't see how it affects them, versus any other answer. I believe society won't move forward as long as everyone only ever sees the world through the lens of "how does this affect me". But this is all just me guessing.
I was answering the question:
Why is this news, indeed? Because it makes people angry. That's it, that's the sole and only reason. There's no other point to wasting the amount of verbiage that has been wasted on this complete non-story of a pointless event.
Are you suggesting we should have news stories broadcasted to the whole world about every possible thing that might offend someone, because otherwise we're ignoring "things that don't affect me?" There's a reasonable threshold below which this kind of thing shouldn't be worth this kind of attention, IMO, and lighting a cigarette on an eternal flame is well below that threshold.