Yeah, what exactly makes the 36k US lives lost more important to focus on during Memorial Day?
The best arguments I can think of:
1. This memorial must be acknowledged or practiced by the Hackernews community, because it's _mostly_ US-based and English speaking. So by association by language, we are expected to talk about a United States federal holiday?
2. All human lives are equal, but there is a day and place for everything. On May 31, the world should practice the Unided States federal holiday. On May 18, well... May 18th is just a Korean holiday. Not everybody needs to be aware of it.
3. US citizens and other English speakers should observe US holidays because that's just the way the world works. Just like how you do more for the funeral of your family, you should discuss US federal holidays more than Korean holidays. Holiday practice is a like zero-sum game, as there isn't that much time to just think about holidays and there are too many holidays. Using the same logic, some people's lives are worth more to you because they affect your life more. Sometimes with this approach, we mess up and overvalue one race more than another...but that's just a side effect of "the way things work".
I can't see the logic. Saying that we should focus on Memorial Day sounds like a talking point that riles up emotions to me.
