Poll of the Day > Do you sympathize with people who died during selfies?

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Solid Sonic
07/26/17 11:58:39 AM
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Jen0125
07/26/17 11:59:17 AM
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sympathize? no but i can empathize.
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DorkLink
07/26/17 11:59:39 AM
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Jen0125 posted...
sympathize? no but i can empathize.


So you've died making a selfie?
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rjsilverthorn
07/26/17 12:04:49 PM
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Not even a tiny little bit.
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Jen0125
07/26/17 12:05:13 PM
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DorkLink posted...
Jen0125 posted...
sympathize? no but i can empathize.


So you've died making a selfie?


you don't need to experience something in order to have empathy for someone and their family.
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Thirty3_1Third
07/26/17 12:06:02 PM
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Natural selection.
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DorkLink
07/26/17 12:15:14 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
DorkLink posted...
Jen0125 posted...
sympathize? no but i can empathize.


So you've died making a selfie?


you don't need to experience something in order to have empathy for someone and their family.


You have that backwards, sympathy is the one where you don't need to experience it
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Yellow
07/26/17 12:25:33 PM
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People die while taking selfies, people die while not taking selfies.

This is a philosophical question.
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darcandkharg31
07/26/17 12:38:00 PM
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Eh, I don't care. I'm not into the whole "I hate people who take selfies" hive mind, I mean, they're just taking a picture of themselves, but I don't know them so I also don't really feel bad for them either.
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Jen0125
07/26/17 12:46:26 PM
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DorkLink posted...
Jen0125 posted...
DorkLink posted...
Jen0125 posted...
sympathize? no but i can empathize.


So you've died making a selfie?


you don't need to experience something in order to have empathy for someone and their family.


You have that backwards, sympathy is the one where you don't need to experience it


em·pa·thy
ˈempəTHē/
noun
noun: empathy

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

sym·pa·thy
ˈsimpəTHē/
noun
noun: sympathy

1.
feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

2. understanding between people; common feeling.


they both have a similar definition. i can understand people being sad their family died from taking a selfie and empathize with them without having to have experienced it.

stop trying to argue semantics with me. it's fucking stupid.
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ZiggiStardust
07/26/17 12:58:31 PM
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people have died taking selfies?
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Jen0125
07/26/17 1:00:03 PM
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ZiggiStardust posted...
people have died taking selfies?


yeah. usually falling from great heights trying to get a picture.
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Lokarin
07/26/17 1:00:55 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
ZiggiStardust posted...
people have died taking selfies?


yeah. usually falling from great heights trying to get a picture.


That's sad. I thought maybe it was people taking selfies while driving or something
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Jen0125
07/26/17 1:01:25 PM
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Lokarin posted...
Jen0125 posted...
ZiggiStardust posted...
people have died taking selfies?


yeah. usually falling from great heights trying to get a picture.


That's sad. I thought maybe it was people taking selfies while driving or something


yeah there seems to have been an uptick of people dying while trying to livestream while they're driving
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rjsilverthorn
07/26/17 1:05:43 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
Lokarin posted...
Jen0125 posted...
ZiggiStardust posted...
people have died taking selfies?


yeah. usually falling from great heights trying to get a picture.


That's sad. I thought maybe it was people taking selfies while driving or something


yeah there seems to have been an uptick of people dying while trying to livestream while they're driving


Which is even worse. At least the selfie idiots generally only kill themselves. Livestreaming while driving puts everyone else on the road at risk as well.
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Zeus
07/26/17 1:07:05 PM
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Here's the thing: People have always fallen from heights, etc, while trying to take photos even before selfies were a thing and, before cameras were a thing, they'd still venture into dangerous areas. More so, a lot of people who die during selfies aren't actually doing something dangerous, but they're just momentarily distracted or unlucky. Regardless, you can still feel somewhat bad for them and worse for their surviving loved ones.

While there are a lot of supremely stupid things which get people killed, usually selfies aren't among them. And, on a more general level, I dislike the Darwin Awards but recognize their value as a cautionary tale to people with very little common sense who might repeat mistakes that got others killed.
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VeeVees
07/26/17 1:11:35 PM
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150k people die each day. I don't care much unless I know them.
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Currant_Kaiser
07/26/17 1:11:38 PM
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Well, it depends. If they were just taking a normal, harmless selfie and some asshole pops a cap in their head, then sure, I can sympathize.

If their death is a direct result of something they were trying to use in their selfie, like leaning off the edge of a cliff while taking one, then they had it coming.
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Mead
07/26/17 1:13:30 PM
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I sympathize with anyone that has an untimely death
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RedPixel
07/26/17 1:14:52 PM
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The world is a dangerous playground. It's sad, sure, but stupid people will always have it the hardest. Common sense is a valuable skill.
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gguirao
07/26/17 1:23:17 PM
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No.
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