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Originally Posted by GoNative
No problem at all. Just pointing out that terrible things happen the world over all the time and the numbers involved in the 9/11 incident are comparitively small when even only compared to annual crime statistics in the US. You guys are far better at killing each other than any terrorists anyway!
You might find this hard to accept but not all of us are as affected by the deaths of a few thousand Americans. Just like most Americans will probably barely give a 2nd thought (assuming they've heard about it at all) about the 21 million or so people affected in the floods in Pakistan this monsoon season.
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More people were killed in the fire-bombings of Tokyo than were killed in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sometimes it isn't the numbers of deaths that make an event noteworthy.
Assassinations are generally the killings of a single person, but few in America forget where they were when they heard that JFK or John Lennon were killed. I will never forget where I was when I heard Princess Diana had died. I was very young but I remember the day Elvis died very distinctly. If you want to throw a bunch of statistics up and say the 9/11 attack isn't a very distinctive event or worthy of the attention it has and will continue to get throughout our lifetimes, I would say you are being a little naive.