Sigh. I can't stop myself from commenting.. my question is: how does the significance of 5000 deaths change at all, when they were all in one very high profile place, as opposed to if they happen scattered all over a country? Don't they touch just as many?

The reason I feel uncomfortable discussing this under such circumstances is that it easily makes it seem as though I'm downplaying the 9 11 events, when that is absolutely not my intention. I do find it worth noting how such a debate hardly ever arises at other occasions, though..

Sigh (meant as a pretty all-encompassing one about state of mankind in general, not this thread).

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^4: On September 11 by Aristotle
in thread On September 11 by scain

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