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Even though I know it will be seen as insensitive, I'm going to try and repeat some of what was in the shoutbox earlier. When I heard the news, my reaction was "big deal". Sure I know it's a terrible thing that happened but it doesn't really affect me.
Then, we get into how it's unreasonable to think that someone could do this to students, but it's reasonable to go in and kill people of a foreign country. Before you start back on the proximity argument and the two different instances argument, it all boils down to the same thing. It's death. Ask the troops over there what they think about it.. they'd probably consider it to be one and the same thing.
Who knows how many people die everyday in the ghettos across America. Does it make the paper? No we'd rather wonder who fathered a baby of a pill-popping money hungry slut. Then oh no! We have students that died because some fuck decided he should kill people because his girlfriend didn't give him a blowjob this morning. I find it horribly insensitive to the rest of the people who die without so much of a decent funeral much less a front story of the paper.
If you're on the sympathetic bandwagon, then perhaps more should be mentioned about the people who die every fucking day instead of just the ones that die at some school.
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