What can I really say?
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What can I really say?
About the Tsunami.
Probably the single-most tragic natural disaster in modern human history. (my knowledge of "modern human history" isn't very extensive, so I could be wrong.)
I really don't know how to expand. Words lose me.
The idea of people dying in the six figures, and millions more being left displaced would make even the most heartless person feel SOMETHING. In my eyes at least, the deaths aren't as tragic as the lives that many of the survivors will now have to live... filled with sadness (and helplessness in the case of orphans and the elderly) over the loss of loved ones, stricken with diseases, left to live a life of hunger, thirst and general psychological trauma.
This is a bit off-topic but someone said something to me after the Tsunami... something like: "So yeah... this is a way bigger tragedy than 9/11." In terms of the loss of human life, it certainly is more tragic, but I really don't like comments like that one. How could you possibly compare those two tragedies? One was murder, the other one was something out of human control. You can't FIGHT nature (unless you're Mr. Burns), you COULD fight murderers though and do what you can in your control to prevent further murders. So in that sense, in most people's understanding of justice, they consider cold-blooded murder to be more tragic than deaths due to natural disasters, which is legitimate, isn't it?
What can I really say?
About the Tsunami.
Probably the single-most tragic natural disaster in modern human history. (my knowledge of "modern human history" isn't very extensive, so I could be wrong.)
I really don't know how to expand. Words lose me.
The idea of people dying in the six figures, and millions more being left displaced would make even the most heartless person feel SOMETHING. In my eyes at least, the deaths aren't as tragic as the lives that many of the survivors will now have to live... filled with sadness (and helplessness in the case of orphans and the elderly) over the loss of loved ones, stricken with diseases, left to live a life of hunger, thirst and general psychological trauma.
This is a bit off-topic but someone said something to me after the Tsunami... something like: "So yeah... this is a way bigger tragedy than 9/11." In terms of the loss of human life, it certainly is more tragic, but I really don't like comments like that one. How could you possibly compare those two tragedies? One was murder, the other one was something out of human control. You can't FIGHT nature (unless you're Mr. Burns), you COULD fight murderers though and do what you can in your control to prevent further murders. So in that sense, in most people's understanding of justice, they consider cold-blooded murder to be more tragic than deaths due to natural disasters, which is legitimate, isn't it?
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