Reply #10: I agree with you on that one as well. [View All]

[Jamastiene]

Most people are so busy and cauught up about surviving in an economy set up to keep people in poverty that they cannot spend time fighting for issues they really care about. Those people who do spend time fighting for the environment, for instance, in Steve Irwin's case, really catch our attention and make us pause and think about how nice it would be to be able to do the same. We cannot always take time to do the same, although we would like to. Many of us also cannot afford to do so either. We do what we need to do to survive. If that includes a bit of identifying more with our heroes than our own families, that of course we will be more affected by their deaths than we maybe thought we would.

You make a valid point.