Hypocrisy and Double Standards Not to get political, but recently we've been hearing much about the school shooting. It's a horrible, but relatively rare event - like airliner crashes, or building collapses. Meanwhile, obesity contributes now to around 400,000 deaths per year in the US. Look at that number! Near half a million in this country alone! Yet the same news media that shows so much concern for the shot children panders to the obese who are killing their children in numbers that rival Pol Pot or Josef Stalin (albeit slowly). I'm sure it has nothing to do with not wanting to alienate their, uh, ever-expanding customer base. /s PS: More hypocrisy: So many memes on FB about the school shooting. But post an article highlighting the obesity crisis. If you're not hearing crickets, you're reading excuses or taking flack for being insensitive.