People think doctors get paid well because they learn so much about the body, but imo it's more because they learn all the things that can kill you at any moment and manage to live without constant anxiety.
straight people seeing another straight ‘forbidden love’ movie for the 10’000th time: “wow, imagine not being able to love or be who you want, that’d be awful. Anyhow, time to protest at my school board for daring to have queer young adult books in their library”
The public mourning during 9/11 is even more curious after the last few years where thousands of people died each day and instead of that being a great tragedy as well, there were demands to go back to work and to learn to live with that level of death.