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Originally Posted by Gatorade Frost
I think most people could tell you it was Louisiana. Being able to pin point the state doesn't seem that important so long as you know what happened there. -snip- That's not to say that it's not important, but while that's happening 2000 miles away, life still goes on where I am and there's still things to be done.
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Maybe this is part of the answer I am looking for... thank you again, Gatorade, for your honesty.
If you do know where a place is, and you know it's far away, I want to know why that takes away from the power of the event. 70,000 people dying there is the same as 70,000 people dying here. Why does distance take away from our ability to empathize? This is a new question, I guess.
But I'm open to thinking more about Gatorade's statement: is it more important to know what happened, than to know where a place is?