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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I agree completely that it's a fruitless exercise to rank the severity of mass murders. I took issue with afc wimbledon's post where he seemed so confident in his claim that the Edmonton killing spree was quite obviously "worse" because it involved children. That doesn't at all make it a greater tragedy, and I'm curious why he seems to think that it does.
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In answer to your question, yes I do think killing children is worse than killing adults, and I'm not trying to rank the tragedies, in fact my point is not that Edmonton was worse but that they are the same, and that it makes no sense that we react to Paris differently to Edmonton.
I'm actually amazed that anyone wouldn't think that killing kids is worse than killing adults.