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Originally Posted by chris gale
Ted I spent thirty years dealing with tragedy and no one except those affected gave a toss
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In some instances an affected lack of interest can be a defence mechanism against the shock, horror etc etc.
On the other hand, a form of mass hysteria can affect a population in some cases - I first became aware of this with the demise of Lady (Saint in some eyes) Diana in 1997; I was working overseas at that time and could not believe, much less understand, the news reporting of that period.
Nevertheless, there are people on the planet who do not give a toss:-
In Портрет тирана (1981) (Portrait of a Tyrant),[1] Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." This is the alleged response of Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference when Churchill objected to an early opening of a second front in France.
(An abstract from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin )
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