>>11691256Oh yeah, here we go with this shit again...
>often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to dataNot sure where he's wrong though. He isn't saying to people who have lost their family members in shooting that they shouldn't care - he is saying that people need to actually respond and change for the better. Just because accidents and killings will happen no matter what, it doesn't mean that society should just give up and never try to prevent them. I thought this was supposed to be the smart board.
He isn't some monumental genius, but he is a public educator and a good and prominent one at that.