While you may not care much about a train derailment in Italy, not having friends, family or business interests there, or a direct financial interest in the train manufacturer, the rail manufacturer, the railroad operator, the contractor who built and/or maintained the system or the residents of the town where it occurred, it might be somewhat more interesting if your interests do coincide with some of those. And the more business and personal interests you have, the more likely that is.
I’m not trying to put you down in any way when I say that “some of us perhaps have broader interests than you do”. For example, I work for a large multi-national company that does manufacture trains that are used throughout Europe and Asia. I have been to Italy and I have business associates there. Many of the goods that my company uses for its other businesses ship by rail. The town where I live is on a high speed rail, even though I don’t use it myself. Our rail line might have some of the same problems that the Italian one did; I’d prefer that our rail operators know that – and act on the knowledge – before we have a derailment here, too.
Regarding “the man who saved a cat in India”, that reminds me that I did hear a story about a subway in New York City that was held up for two hours (!) in order to rescue some kittens that had gotten onto the track. The reason that story was interesting was the follow-up: Why is the Transit Authority taking such a “species-ist” position to rescue kittens, when they don’t care two cents for all of the rats that exist in the subway tunnels and around and under the rails? After all, they’re just two different mammalian species. Why does one species hold up a train for two hours, and the other is ignored or exterminated whenever possible?
Sometimes the news just gives you something to think about.
On the other hand, how ‘bout them Red Sox, eh?