Female hostages murdered

[Bob the Gunslinger]

Newspaper headlines are not the best way to gauge public values. Try talking to people.

Sorry about the homeland thing. I thought I remembered you going off against Sweden in the HOS recently, but I must have been confused.

Seriously, Newspapers and the news in general only report on things that will make them money. Domestic horror is common enough that, while it outrages almost everyone, it doesn't sell well. But anything that plays up the outrage felt against terrorists or the current administration for putting us in it's grasp will sell, not because it pisses us off more but because it happens less often and ties into other areas that people are interested in reading about for a variety of reasons. That's all there is to it.

[Stormbringer]

Because those two female workers had a choice of leaving or staying knowing that people are getting heads chopped off on a regular basis?

So because they didn't stay home they deserve to die? Never mind that they were there doing humanitarian work.

My point is that these women had a choice to stay in harm's way, and our everyday rape-victims do not, yet it's more upsetting to us that people who voluntarily stay in a dangerous and unstable region get killed, than women getting killed in our own society.

Again, you're saying that because they didn't stay home they deserve to die?

Frankly, none one is saying that violence in our society is any more acceptable. It just so happens that in Western society we actually punish crimes, not celebrate them. Sorry but your bullshit pontificating is just that, bullshit.

The fact that they get their heads chopped off by muslims is completely irrelevant for the point I'm trying to make.

On the contrary, the fact that they did it precisely because of their barbaric religion has a very direct bearing on this.