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evman150 · 08-30-2011, 04:08 PM

Woke up, saw it on the news. Watched for a while. Went to school (grade ten), nobody said anything all day about it.

It was just another day as far as everybody was concerned. In retrospect, and after reading this thread, I guess that reaction was kind of weird.

I don't know. It was 4,000 km away. As callous as it sounds, it was like watching a world vision ad. Yes it's brutal and awful and horribly unfortunate, but people die needlessly every day. People die from dictators and terrorists and preventable diseases every day. What was different about this day?

08-30-2011, 04:08 PM	#67
evman150 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Richmond, BC Exp:	Woke up, saw it on the news. Watched for a while. Went to school (grade ten), nobody said anything all day about it. It was just another day as far as everybody was concerned. In retrospect, and after reading this thread, I guess that reaction was kind of weird. I don't know. It was 4,000 km away. As callous as it sounds, it was like watching a world vision ad. Yes it's brutal and awful and horribly unfortunate, but people die needlessly every day. People die from dictators and terrorists and preventable diseases every day. What was different about this day? __________________ "For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan Freedom consonant with responsibility.