5 Rules for Coping with Tragedy

Tragedies like the mass shooting in Tucson at a public event organized by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) are horrifying enough on their own, but they also have a way of bringing out the worst in reporters and politicians.

In fact, knee-jerk reactions often leave us with misconceptions and bad policies that stick around long after the healing has begun.

And so Reason.tv presents: 5 Rules for Coping with Tragedy

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Produced by Ted Balaker; written by Balaker and Nick Gillespie.

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[NoDeity]

This is one of the most sane thing I've heard on this topic so far.

[ghuegel]

There was also a little Ayn Rand sprinkled in with the murderer's favorite books. Obviously, he's a Libertarian Communist anti-fascist fascist.

[darwinkilledgod]

One small correction: Eric Harris was indeed bullied at school and did mention that in his journal as a reason for the shootings. Yes, they bullied other people as well - that's actually quite common according to researchers like Brad Bushman.

[Infantry9]

@NoMoreBlatherDotCom

Has it occurred to you that Reason is really a watchdog type of group on certain government activities? Has it occurred to you that the reason they released this video was because of the irrationality that followed the tragedy? For example: people blamed it on political tensions and pundits when the killer wasn't into listening to pundits. Money doesn't matter. Messages do.

[Wargoat6]

@ghuegel And a member of the Lollipop guild.

[NoMoreBlatherDotCom]

With videos like this it's a good idea to follow the money.

Reason is part of the "Kochtopus", those people and groups funded by the billionaire Koch family.

The Kochtopus is one of the major funders of the teapartiers, because the teapartiers push the Koch agenda.

Reason is just playing their part: they warn against "politicizing the tragedy" because doing so would impact the teapartiers.

And, the Kochs don't want that.

[mrjoeymo]

best video ever.

[gamingeagle19]

5 people are lacking common sense.

[gamingeagle19]

@ghuegel don't forget atheist pot-smoker lol

[scythe747]

@newperve Diana is a girl's name.

[newperve]

@scythe747 Well your friend is pretty unique. We the Living had little about capitalism and a lot about individualism. If he was reallly a libertarian it's extremely surprising that he didn't read Atlas Shrugged if he knew of Rand.

[wlinden]

Or he just likes reading political theory?