Why are some victims of crime or disaster...?
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Most are not.  They must usually be either affluent, young and attractive, or represent a specific group the media wants to support or bring down to get on the news.
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Not knowing that something bad is happening is one thing.  Knowing that something bad is happening and not caring is cruel.\n\nIf you got attacked/raped or something terrible on your way home, that would be bad.  If I saw it happening and did nothing, that is worse than the person comitting the crime.  They may be confused, ill, sick or mentally disturbed.  I, on the otherhand, posessing all of my faculties and in a position to do something, have a moral obligation to humanity to do that something.\n\nNow if I was 80 years old and could not stop the attack, I should at least raise a ruckas ... alert attention to it ...\n\nTo this day, those whom dismiss the horrors of it, fail to learn the tragedy and the events which led up to it are doing much the same ... walking down the sidewalk, not paying attention.\n\nIn other situations ... if you asked me for money ... well, you're not getting any, but the least I could do is to listen and emphasize ... "Gee, I'm genuinely sorry that I can't give you money."   Not to be confused with bearing no consequence at all to handing $1.75 to a stranger in the airport who's just trying to call his wife and doesn't have change.  \n\nSee ?
362185
its nuts, more people try to protect the criminals instead of the victims.  Now days if some one brakes into your house and hurts them selves doing it they can sue your ass for everything you have left.
1033604
Some Americans are guilty for all disasters in the world! It's all because of their greediness and not respecting anybody but themselves!
617490
Some people do not know they have a good life until ruined.\n\nThen there are some who might be too greedy to take a risk to have a better life and that bet went south.\n\nThen there are others who ruin their good (in other people's view as good) life when they might not be satisfied with their life.
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Massacres are mostly the exception, but that doesn't make them uncommon. They just normally do a good job of covering them up.
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Outside of those points...there are other students wanting to copy Columbine. Why must we focus on the bad news after it happens, instead of trying to figure out what causes it to begin with? \n\nI pray that the survivors, family members and community have grown stronger in themselves and together in spirit. I would never want to be in that situation for I know I am not strong enough myself to handle it. I saw people after it happened and how well they held their heads high. I would never be able to do that. Kudos and angels to them.
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There are 2 kinds of people.  Those who help.  Those who hurt.  Either way, we all are the same in our needs for food, shelter, money, achievement (recognition).  So we take care of our needs either legitimately without hurting others, or we take from others and eventually pay the price (prison or blown away).  The best we can do is live our lives positively, make up our own minds and not ever let anyone else make us afraid or keep us from doing what we want to do.  Bad things happen to good people.  We need to stay mostly alert and aware.
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Because we have become desensitized.  The murders are more frequent but what is more frightening is the brutality and how young the murderers are.  I am amazed at the number of girls and women that committ the really violent crimes and how many of them are done for financial gain or because someone fell out of love with them....sickos!
80822
the question is vague..... u need to put a lil details so that we can answer according to wat u need.\notherwise the above answer is all about natural disasters.. floods, earthquakes, volcano erruption, n bla bla bla....
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I'll bet the conclusion showed that more accidents happened on Friday the 13th. Wanna know why? Because people get too wrapped up in trying to avoid "bad luck" that they are too easily influenced/distracted by other things that normally wouldn't faze them.\n\nBut I'm wrong, correct?
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You might want to research the suicidal people that couldn't escape Hurricane Katrina, because of money and poverty. A lot of people died the Government isn't reporting properly, and are ignoring the whole thing because of race.
942870
You are more likely to be a victim of crime than terrorism. This just shows you where their priorities lie. Scaremongering rather than solving.
822202
Well, in most criminal cases, there are actual physical causes, like damage in certain areas of the brain.   It can cause you to lose all respect for other life forms, and worse.
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There were thousands of car thefts during that same period and many murders.\n\nData theft is a little more recent and so the pattern isn't quite as set yet, but some people will cheat and kill and steal and our systems of security and justice will not catch or stop all of them.\n\nSo, yes, I see a pattern.  The same pattern that has been around since humans invented property.  And no, I don't think there is some big conspiracy, master criminal, or new great cause for alarm.
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It can be a combination of things, and in most real cases it is.  Poverty, upbringing, financial status, social status, can all have a push or pull when some one is deciding on commiting a crime.  In most crimes most people have a well structured plan of what they were going to do, which means that it wasn't some spur of the moment thing.  For example I did a case studie on Drug related crimes: selling, production and so forth.  Over 40 percent of the criminals admited that it was easier for them to sell and produce drugs than it was to actually go and get a paying job.  Now that can be considerd a social upbringin or classification.  \n\nFor some people crime is a way of life, Little Rock Arkansas has the highest rate of gang killings in the US Higher than LA, Okland, and New York.  There was a documentary that showed that little kids were raised up in gangs, hanging round drugs, sex, and crime.  It wasn't a case of these children choosing to joing the Crypts of the Bloods it was that they were raised in the enviorment.  Additionaly to the gang enviorment these children were raised in poverty, the social sturcture was messed up from the beginning weather it was parenting, education, and so on.  \n\nThen you have those that do it for the thrill of doing it.  Take for example kids killing for fun.  I forgot what show it was (was on A&E) but was over kids killing other kids for fun. 4 out of the 5 killers that were intervied said they wanted to know what it felt like to kill.  Now most of these kids were brought up living the american dream: mom, dad, house, minvan, dog, but yet these kids wanted to kill.  Now dose the killings that these kids in any way diffierent from the killing of those raised in gangs, no they were killing, but their social, education, and other aspects were worlds apart.\n\nso in short its can be alot of things that will push a person to commit a crime, weather it be petty thieving to premptive murder.
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it all depends on the crime, many times they deserve it for the lost of lives.\n\n:> peace\n.