Posted by Rach on September 11, 2001, at 13:50:20
In reply to Re: war..., posted by Krazy Kat on September 11, 2001, at 13:17:26
I didn't bring this up; but I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'this'. All I did was respond to your post, which I am entitled to do.
I am not making light of a tragedy, and I am extremely offended that you suggest this.
What I AM doing, is hoping that the government considers the consequences of war and retaliation. That they consider the lives that will be lost in war, & of how many other countries will become involved.
I think it is disrespectful to those who have died to make their deaths even more meaningless by killing more innocent people, as you have suggested by saying that war is perhaps necessary. Consider how meaningless these deaths are now, and then consider it after thousands more people have died.
I just found it completely disgusting that you want to consider more death a good way to make up for the death that has already occured.
It is You who has been disrespectful. More death will not solve a thing. The people who have died will be forgotten in the politics and the continued death that war will bring. Death will not increase the defence capabilities of attacks like this in the future. It will be more senseless tragedy.
(as for women & children being hurt; I never said that, & I don't think that is fair.)
> I have not completely missed the point Rach. You are making light of a tragedy hours after it has happened!
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> I can talk forever about how I don't want to see women and children hurt either (by the way, is the women part really fair?), but we're just been ATTACKED. Where are your defense mechanisms? Where's your respect for the people caught in the World Trade Center as it fell in on itself??
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> I'm sorry but you really shouldn't bring this up immediately after such an event. It's completely disrespectful to my friends who were killed and everyone caught in the tragedy.
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> Perhaps nothing further will come of it, but the immediate victims, are the ones to be considered first!
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> - K.
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