It was first suggested by Albert Einstein in 1905 that everything is relative and that different observers will differ from one another about something occurring in a given spacetime, for which he won a more than deserved Nobel Prize. Through this discovery, born of the purest physics, we are able to understand the problems of our modern life, where we are overexposed to thousands of messages, theories and conversations, and everything is relative. We do not show the same level of interest, concern, ability to shock usin some cases more than others.
Thus, we understand, for example, that 50 deaths in an attack on the outskirts of Kabul are not the same as 50 deaths in New York. We integrate the former almost normally because we understand that it takes place in a physical setting. extreme violence armed groups clash, not like in the city where Frank Sinatra sings, where crime skyrockets and ends with multiple murders a day last February.
Nor is the war in Ukraine, where we open our arms and open our arms in the face of a brutal invasion, is not the same as the war in Syria, where destruction is maximum with the active participation of the Russians. Is it due to physical intimacy? What would be closer to us? Ukraine is 38 hours by road, and Syria is 51 hours away. It’s possible. But if so, why is a Westerner – any Westerner – who died in Australia in tragic circumstances more important than that? 100 sub-Saharan drowned On a small boat on our own shores? Closer is impossible.
But there is more. For years, because everything is relative in our own home, it hasn’t seen us—political, parties, governments, and society—that a murdered woman’s life is of equal value. For more sexist terrorism than ETA victim. In its 43 years of operation, from 1968 to 2011, the terrorist organization killed more than 850 people of all ages. A brutality. About 20 deaths per year. One victim per month and two in some months. In the case of women killed by their spouses or ex-partners, they were killed in just 19 years (half of ETA’s existence). a total of 1,150 womenThere are still four months, 26 of which are in 2022. And not counting the little ones.
I’ve been asking myself all these questions about the relativity of the dead this week to try to understand why. seven dead in some bullfights in just two months and no one is doing anything. Noone. In a progressing society in 21st century Europe there must at least be a cause for controversy. With numbers just at hand, two fatal cases of monkeypox in Spain filled more national headlines and, as they say, caused more than seven deaths—seven dead—poisoning at door-to-door parties. Closer is impossible.
The defenders claim the deceased went there freelythat they run like someone who knows the risks, goes to the beach and drowns in the sea, without forcing. Or who was driving and had a car accident. Are the dead in ‘Bus al carrer’ by chance, bad luck, neglect, old age and that’s it? It’s a possibility. But there are 34 dead since 2014. Eye, 34.
For them, discussion is clearly something else and should be. some parties requires public resources In many cases, an autonomous administration – emergency personnel – and local overtime of municipal staff, It is a discussion in which all citizens participate, not just those who come to have fun. Without going into this article whether they should be banned or not, my question just comes up. public administrations until, in which case Valencia can hold parties where deaths occur. The Cullera Medusa festival was canceled ipso facto after the death of a child on its first day. and we all saw normal and appropriate. Can a society see how 34 people died in its streets during a party and did nothing? I leave it there.