At least 92 innocent Norwegians were brutally murdered without reason.
July 23, 2011.
Amy Winehouse dies.
This blog bost does not intend to take away from the obvious horror experienced by the Norwegian people, the thought of it makes my blood fill with fury and pain.
I have in the past few days witnessed an online debate on the subject of the media attention of the Norway killings and Amy Winehouse's death.
People appear to be slating this woman for her 'untimely death,' and show no sympathy for the singer because of her drug addiction.
Harsh expletives and severe opinions are used when expressing viewpoints on the attention of the singer, posting status on Facebook proclaiming 'Fuck Amy Winehouse.' and 'She deserved to die.'
Apart from shock, these cruel statements filled me with anger; the harsh ignorance of some people on the internet, armed only with their keyboards, brings sick to my throat.
Amy Winehouse was an unwell woman. Drug addiction comes high on the list of the most terrible things on our planet.
She did not 'deserve to die.' Nobody does.
The pain that her family and friends are experiencing, this loss, does not need to be deepened. I can only hope that none of them witness these cruel judgements being passed via facebook.
Judgements that may not even be truthful.
The instantaneous opinion that Amy Winehouse 'died from drugs ' has so far got no evidence to back it up. The tests from her autopsy have not yet confirmed anything.
I read in a newspaper article yesterday that it was likely that she died from a lack of drugs not a surplus of them. It was reported that she had been 'clean' for three weeks prior to her death, but that this 'cold turkey' she had subjected herself to had sent her body into
shock.
I don't know if this is true, nobody can yet say how she died.
But if nobody can say.. How the hell do people justify passing their judgements?
If you can say it is wrong to empathise with Amy Winehouse when there is such horror in Norway, my question to you is; Are any of you opinionated cyber warriors actively doing anything to help the poor souls from Norway?
I very much doubt it.
It is my opinion that these people simply love to have somebody to 'slag off', love to have the attention seeking statuses which bring up moral issues which, truthfully, aren't actually apparent.
Because, really, when all is said and done, the Norway killings, and the death of Amy Winehouse are two separate events on the dark and evil timeline of our world. Two separate events, that are in no way connected.
People need to keep in mind that, as a race, we do in fact have the brain capacity to empathise with two unrelated subjects at once.
Who would have known?
