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Originally Posted by evman150
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?
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The fact that these people lived in a place where these things weren't supposed to happen. It's much easier to watch things happen in the third world and have it feel distant, you can't relate to many aspects of that life experience. To see it happen in a place that is very much like where you live, and to people that are very much like you and me changes everything.
You also were a moronic 16 year old surrounded by moronic 16 year olds, putting actual thought into anything that doesn't directly impact you at that stage would be unexpected.