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What I'm saying is that they had my empathy and sympathy. I was one of those that sent thoughts and donations and letters. In 2001. Now? It's 2008 and basically anything that their deaths could have stood for has been besmirched. I'm not interested in acting like it's still 2001 and the wounds are still fresh and the opportunity for justice is still there. They're not.
Maybe I should clarify something. Those 100,000+ murders I mentioned garner my sadness and sympathy, just like the 3,000 on 9/11. What I'm against is insisting that 9/11 was somehow more sad or more terrible than all of the other murders. It may have been an unconventional and spectacular (in a bad way, of course) method, but it's murder.
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