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Orrex

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Tue Aug-30-05 09:50 AM
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8. Yeah, let's misstate the view of the poster who's calling for perspective

I undestand what he meant, and I understand that he’s under extraordinary duress. I am able to recognize the enormity of the Biloxi tragedy and also to recognize the monumental destruction in Indonesia and elsewhere. But I refuse to be castigated for recognizing the relative severity of each.

I am sorry for those who died, and I am sorry for their families, and I am sorry for the decimated communties. You called them irrelevant; I did not.

When the London bombings killed dozens of people, there were cries throughout DU to maintain perspective—after all, more people than that die in Iraq each week—and no one condemned those who cited the disparity.

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