ISTD: The Undiscovered Country

As a society, we have become so statistically numb to the outside world. This tendency to relate more emotionally to the reality of a single person than two or more people, or to the abstraction of statistics, is especially powerful when it comes to the way we perceive risk and danger, because what might happen to a single real person might happen to you.

One death will always move us more than one million. This 'fundamental deficiency in our humanity' is an inescapable part of the human animal. Perhaps by recognising this about ourselves, we can do something about it, hoping that reason can overcome emotion in the way we perceive things.

The aim of this/these book(s) is to change the way we perceive death by giving both statistical information and emotional first hand accounts from the Rab'a massacre 2014. At the end, a statistical report is given but it is not an ordinary statistical report. Yes there are facts and figures, but as we read on, we look at how much we perceive death from both accounts, providing examples where necessary.