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Originally Posted by Burninator
Proximity - This happened very close to us. People are inherently more concerned when things happen to people that could be them. The risk of starvation or dieing from an easily treatable disease is not an issue that affects us so directly as a terrorist attack.
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I agree that proximity is probably the main driver for the trauma... How many of us were as shocked/incensed/choked about Rwanda or Darfur (which was murder on a far far larger scale)?
I think this action hit home, North America had never been touched by anything like this (unlike say Europe which had the IRA and some extreme leftwing organizations in the not so distant past) - we considered ourselves safe and we were shocked into realizing that we were no longer safe...