AlanShearer wrote:
Sanuk wrote:
I wonder how many people actually say prayers for the victims? My bet, close to zero.
The victims are dead or injured. Do you really think prayers are going to help them? Then why do so many say their thoughts and prayers are with the victims? I think it's because they are stalling to wait until the latest massacre gets off the front pages so they can go back to doing nothing about the gun problem. The other stalling tactics include,
- "We should really focus on mental health issues"
- "Now is not the time to politicize this, shame on you for doing that"
- They focus on a detail in the latest shooting and say "but eliminating x or doing something about y wouldn't have stopped this particular massacre so doing nothing is the better option.
I think people say "thoughts and prayers" because they're otherwise helpless
as individuals to do anything more. It's not that they don't care, don't have opinions on what should be done, or are trying to stall. I've seen the meme about "thoughts and prayers" and "doing the very least," and I think that's much more trite that someone simply expressing their thoughts and prayers in light of a tragedy.
Whining about "thoughts and prayers" is a senseless as complaining about someone who said "I'm sorry" to someone who lost a loved one.
No, "thoughts and prayers" is mocking all the politicians that actually have the ability to affect change that say "thoughts and prayers" instead of doing anything about it. They can say both "thoughts and prayers" and what they are actually going to do. Instead all they say is "thoughts and prayer." Those that only say that should be mocked, because they are clearly trying to avoid doing anything about it. Those words are empty and everyone should be insulted by it.
They clearly do not care about the tragedy, or else they would do something to actually prevent future tragedies.
Plus, everyone is not helpless, you can stop voting for the people that actively prevent changes to gun laws that allow these to take place.
