What's interesting here is that the writer is blaming the beach-goers for not being ... humoresque?
If find it interesting that the banner of other issues didn't come out of this or other possible blame-game situations. Where were the parents? Why in an advanced society are there poor Gypsy kids, where was the lifeguard, etc.
I don't really think the blame-game should be played, but it's interesting that an article about indifference seems to be rather indifferent or detached from some of the many other possible problems they could be pointing out.
That being said, it does seem a bit odd that people didn't at least try to avoid being photographed near some children's corpses... or better yet avoid being around the dead entirely. It's kind of creepy to just continue business as usual right next to the dead.
All an all it's tragic that some children drowned and a bit odd the perceived behavior of some of the beach-goers, but not necessarily a good focus for an article.
wow.. humoresque should read humanesque.. -- not that it's a word, but you get the idea
It's overdone to say the beachgoers in the photo aren't the least bit concerned. The body language shows the woman is contemplative, and probably trying to turn her head away so her face won't be identified. The man, at the very least, looks subdued. Neither seems to be enjoying anything.
I think you have to read the article in conjunction with the picture:
"While the lifeless bodies of the girls were still on the sand, there were those who carried on sunbathing or having lunch just a few meters away," Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported.
It is always a highly risky business trying to read people's minds and feelings from their body language, or their facial expressions.
I would have thought that the natural, first interpretation of why the woman turned her head away, would not be so that "her face won't be identified", but because she didn't want to look at the dead bodies.
And if those bodies were left on their own on the beach for a while, maybe the couple felt obligated to linger around. It is, I think, a human instinct, not to leave a dead body on its own.
Italy, apparently, has a most disgusting and painfully sloppy policy regarding "incidental" death. The bodies left to be gawked at by onlookers and no authoritative control over what could be a crime scene. Nice.
I still don't know. Re this pair, there could be a lot of reasons they remained seating near the girls. On the photograph it looks creepy indeed, but then photographs are notorious for telling a wrong story.
The article(s) are naturally looking for sensation, so there is no saying how much of what the stories tell is overinflated. However, saying all this, it still looks extremely creepy.
Soob - how do they know whether the death was really incidental while deciding on how to guard the bodies and the (possible) crime scene. All this before any study?
Sounds weird indeed.
Three seconds after the couple realized their picture had been taken, they got up and left the beach. Making the article a lie.
Human instinct to stay with a dead body? New one on me.
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