RE: Your 3 main reasons
April 19, 2011 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2011 at 4:11 pm by Violet.)
Thesummerqueen Wrote:I'm not arguing the body count, Sae. I get the same sense of horror looking at anything along those lines. It doesn't matter if it's that crazy serial killer in NY right now who's body count is at what...9?...or if it's a genocidal holocaust on par with what's going on in Africa. What matters is the disgust that humans would treat each other that way.
It matters very much how many die/are brutalized. One priest molesting a handful of children is of little concern. An entire organization that defends many more priests molesting far more children is of major concern.
Quote:And yeah, I get caught in "How" people were lost. Would I rather my dad die in his bed than be engulfed in flames and rubble from a crazed lunatic asshole screaming to Allah as he goes down? Fuck yes. I get caught in the "how" and the fact that buildings were destroyed because those buildings were created to serve a purpose, and to house people going about their business innocently enough and someone decided their ideology was more important than the spark of those people's lives and thought to symbolically and physically strike at what they thought the heart of America was.
How is the way by which a person dies relevant to the fact that they are now dead? I'd rather people didn't suffer greatly too, but death is unchanged by how much pain was suffered before its occurrence.
The causation of the effect should not be tied in a part of the effect. The effect is a separate issue, and joining effect and cause together is to disservice the value of both. While we're at it, let's also charge the dead for standing someplace they shouldn't have been standing, as the effect would certainly not have occurred had they not. A raving murderous muslim that has committed the crime of killing is a separate being from those slain by said murderer. Hate the murderer that kills him all you wish, but don't hate them by tarnishing your memory of your father in the process. That's just counterproductive

They apparently struck true to the heart of america... america's response was a number of wars in other countries that killed far more people. And that's why you shouldn't have hyper-emotional people leading a nation

Quote:I'm glad you were entertained by the buildings being destroyed. It might have been interesting if they had been cleared of people first. I was too busy watching those who were fleeing.
It was a very interesting collapse. Since they took so long to fall, I find it quite amusing that people were there to 'flee' in the first place. The whole thing was poorly handled, from start to finish. Try not to blame me too much for being amused at failure on that scale

Quote:Ever notice that some of the funniest people in the world are also some of the saddest and most cynical simply because they have to make a coping mechanism to deal with all the bullshit they see on a daily basis?
My coping mechanism: detachment with a smile. Often found to be very rude (ie: smiling while others are frothing at the mouth angry).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day