Becky at Preemptive Karma insightfully reflects on the Virginia shooting:
[Excerpt] Think about it on a larger scale and you'll see what I mean. Spend a moment feeling your own pain and fear as an American whose security has been shaken a little bit by what happened yesterday. Now imagine the pain that is being experienced every day in Iraq. Yesterday, for example, 66 people died horrible, shocking deaths in Baghdad and Karbala. Did you know that? Twice as many people as died at Virginia Tech. And that sort of death is occurring in Iraq daily - in a country that never experienced suicide bombs before this war began. We fear for our children and worry how the senseless school shootings affect them. But do we spend even five seconds thinking about the children in Iraq? Are they less human?
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no, they are collatorial fallout of the war on terrorism. When you other another one does not have to think of them as human.
And if you think about this, where on a daily basis 66 people (most of them civilians) die horrible deaths, and what that is like for those remaining, it can well be imagined why some of the survivors become human suicide bombers. If you think that everybody is dying and that one day you will to, your mind becomes twisted, and you go for it, taking out those one might feel has caused you, your family, your nation so much bloodshed.
I think about all deaths everyday, including children in Iraq. I do think proximity is an important factor on how these events affect people. I'm saddened what has happened at Va. Tech, but I would be distraught if this happened at Indiana University, the college in the town I reside in.
I don't think its time to politicize the events. There'll be plenty of time for that later. And for the record, I wish they'd go ahead and ban guns that were meant to kill people out of citizens' hands.
The children in Iraq are just extras in a new reality TV show called "Survivor:Iraq". They don't actually *die*. They rise from their shallow graves at the end of each day's shooting to have warm milk and canapes in the casting shed, doncha know?
Survivor:Iraq is on the verge of being cancelled due to poor ratings, but only because the American public is bored with it, not because they, like, think the Iraqi children are actually human or anything...
- Badtux the Cynical Penguin
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