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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
I guess this goes to show how selfish the human being can be-- "if its not in my back yard-- I don't care a damn."
Lets pretend it never happened.Be like the proverbial ostrich.
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Personally I think it's more about balance than anything else . . .
At the risk of repeating what's been said . . . what happened was awful, and we shouldn't forget, and the stories told are devestating and thought-provoking indeed, but at the same time do we really
need to be
constantly reminded of such a tragedy?
WW1 and 2 for example were horrific, more so than 9/11, and no one has or ever will forget those events . . . but it's not on television every single day, in the newspapers every other week, it's not rammed down our throats until we're so desensitised to it that instead of sympathising all we think is 'not this again'. All I've heard for ten years is 9/11 and about terrorists, and this past weekend no matter what I did or where I went it was
constantly there being shoved at me.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's
good to remember, but at the same time isn't it also
bad to - not just remember - but obssess about those events? The media really needs to balance things out, because whilst the events are awful I think this level of coverage is demoralising and desensitising people to what happened.