Not any more alarming than the thousands in Africa, Bangladesh and stuff dying of preventable diseases. We're living in a luxury world and this stuff isn't really shocking.
Still worth investigating of course. But the public's fixations are really retarded. Incidents like these just show us what we human beings really are in our current state.
Alright, it's the first day of the year, I can't let you say such things without pointing the preposterous generalization. Don't think that the whole world looks like the USA, don't even think that the USA looks like its own caricature.
There's stupid people everywhere, those living in the USA have more destruction power under their hands, but those living outside aren't less stupid, just less dangerous. Despite this, it's not because your hear (almost) only about them, that they are the only people living on Earth. For each stupid human being actions, there's more good actions done, the same day, but who want to hear about them ? Yes, who...
Well, in fact all of us want to hear about them... But still we don't hear about them on our daily basis because "it's not seller", and also because we are a little too lazy. Bad news are automatically served to us. Just open twitter, tv, radio, just browse a site like reddit, and you'll be flooded by them without asking anything. But the good news we need to go find them, and don't do it most of the time.
So here's some links for when you feel like loosing hope in humanity (sorted in google order to not favor one over another) :
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All this said, it's not because there's people starving or dying of preventable decease, and not only in Africa, it also happen in the neighborhood where this incident happen and all around the world, that we shouldn't feel bad for this family, broke in piece because of a stupid guy who don't stand loosing $2 over an online game.