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Well, there are few political topics that make everyone happy in the end.

Negativity and scare tactics sell big time and generate more viewers than positive or neutral stories... I agree with you that it is annoying.

This forum is for debates on real things out there. Most debates never end good at all. There is a right and a wrong in some instances, so both sides can't be all happy.

And if you think about it, do you know any happy world events? There are a few, but the ones that make news, are disasters, and worldwide moral indifferences.

Humans are attracted to misery. It catches our attention... And many people sort of like to loom over the bad stuff, instead of focusing on the good...
But yeah, it's a shame the world has come to that.


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true, but good things are also on teh news too, like parades and things.

We don't want to talk about parades. Have you ever seen a parade thread anywhere? It's just not interesting to talk about.

im not talking about the site, im talking about the news onlike tv.

This is under the world events, politics, and religion category, which most people have strong opinions about. Many times these opinions conflict, making for tense discussions. That's just the way it works.

I hate it that everyone only focuses on bad things. I try to live the happiest life I can and focus on why somethings are awesome.

yeah, I'm waiting for a new species to be found for gosh sakes. We need something amazngly great to happen and not threats of NUCLEAR WARHEADS.

yeah i have been seeing a lot of this junk like can russia beat usa but some more interesting topics are like when will the hover car be invented and stuff like that

Problem is, there's often more discussion in the negative subjects...

Though I think the Homosexuality thread is a pretty good example of a non-negative yet successful topic. Sure, there's been arguments and slight flaming, but most of it pretty clean, and after the 'this is wrooong!' posts from the bad part of the Christians stopped, it actually got to a pretty good neutral state.

Sorry, that wasn't to advertise that thread, just... Explaining? I don't know. But the opinions are often stronger on negative subjects.

In part I think this is merely a sign of the times. We're currently living in a world obsessed by impending doom and international hostilities.

theres lots of bad thing in the world and people just htink about those and post them here to make everyoen else sad =*(

I DISAGREE ABOUT 5% ARE AND DONT GET TO WORKED UP ABOUT THEM 99.9% OF THAT 5% ARE JUST TRYING TO SCARE YOU