Speaking of bias, I loathe how, when people die because they lack shelter from the freezing cold, we call it "death by exposure." This case isn't that of a homeless man but a heroic father. Nevertheless, when the unsheltered die on an iced-over bench in the dead of winter, covered by classified sections and rags, we call that exposure. What they died from was poverty, and homelessness, and in many cases, mental illness and/or drug abuse. And they died in an excruciating fashion, slowly freezing to death, often all alone. But "exposure" is so much cleaner, so disconnected from root causes, so much easier to ignore. That's bias. It's bias towards our desire to avoid guilt, shame, regret, or communal culpability.
