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First of all, it simply isn't true that most of the world is mourning more over the death of Winehouse, than the loss of all those young people in Norway.
Just reading this thread and a modicum of common sense should tell you that much.

Secondly, the tabloid newspapers do not reflect what most people in Britain actually think. To believe that as true is plainly idiotic.
I don't believe you believe that either, which makes me wonder why you even pointed it out in the first place.

Thirdly, you say you know some people who claim not to care about what happens outside of England.
Well I don't know where you come from, but it isn't the case where I live.
I can only think you have some pretty shallow friends, friend.

Fourthly, are you fucking serious?

Your comparison in your previous post showed an incredible lack of respect for the Norwegian tragedy and the death of a troubled human being.
To play one off against the other was, to put it frankly, obnoxious.

We have two threads. This one and the Norway thread.
If you want to express your sympathy for Norway, then post in that one without speaking ill of the dead and being judgemental in this one!

Ben Butler

Reading this thread to say the world doesn't care about the Norway shooting's is not your best source. It is going to be bias towards Amy Winehouse considering we're discussing this issue on a music forum.

The tabloids don't express the views of everyone but a lot of people get papers that conform to their political views. A conservative backer isn't to going to get The Guardian. The newspapers all too often are the voice of the people.

The comparison was there on the basis that more people seem to care about Amy Winehouse than the Norway tragedy.

92 people dying in Norway is far more of a tragedy that Amy Winehouse dying. They were just innocent youths in a politcal camp that were shot dead by a right wing, extremist lunatic. They didn't have a choice, Winehouse did with the drugs and the alcohol. They were the future of Norway, Winehouse was just a mess. The Norway tragedy has far more pressing global concerns, i.e. international terroism than Amy Winehouse dying. The educational person will always choose to read about Norway.

Addiction is not a disease, it is quite different from undoubted brain disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer's. People can't recover from these but they can from addiction. If there is something in their lives that they value that is at stake - but incentives don't do much for dementia. Addicts are not passive victims, this is a gross simplifcation.

It may be impossible, in the late stages of psychological and physical dependancy the break the habit of years without help and the motivation to give up the relief of the next hit must be greatly diminished by the knowledge that you will return to a world marked by the damage you have done to your prospects or to the lives of others.

Guilt, emptiness and a huge and daunting task of reconstruction face the recovering addict. In the early stages, however, it is a different story. There are genetic explantions for addiction and it is true that children of addicts are more likely to become addicts and the other argument is the link between genes and addictive behaviour is the brain.

What makes you think I don't care about Somalia? Stop making generalized assumptions about me that are simply not true. You know nothing about me.

The front page of The Star on Sunday was all about Amy Winehouse with a very small article at the top about Norway. Pick up The Guardian and you can guarantee that it would be Norway.