[extropy-chat] Rights and Moral Indignation

[J. Andrew Rogers]

On Dec 12, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Stuart, our Avantguardian, writes
>> Do they? What about Columbine?
>
> Statistically ignorable.  Totally.  Could be twice
> as many totally nutty and lawless things like that
> happened in 1906, and hardly anyone noticed.
> It certainly would not have been national news.


In the olden days, they called such mayhem "disasters", even when on  
a far grander scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster


Cheers,

J. Andrew Rogers