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Originally Posted by Rochard
My sense of scale isn't broken at all. This is two hundred children gone in one night, which you can't compare to ten thousand children loosing their house over a period of four years.
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I think 3000+ people gone in a matter of hours trumps 200 kids being taken who are probably still alive. The kids can be searched for, maybe even found and saved. Those 3000 9/11 victims are gone gone gone. Twenty or thirty of them were Canadians. Several others were from other nations. That crime reached or touched in some way nearly the entire world. This by comparisson is not even close to being on the same scale.
Don't get me wrong, it's an aweful thing and you're right, someone should do something about it. Nice of you to try and raise awareness about it, but to come on here and play it like everyone here is a heartlless idiot who has their priorities backwards while you are the lone voice of caring about what matters is, well, kind of a stretch don't you think? Truthfully if there was something meaningful I could do about this I would do it.
It's not like you or anyone else over here in N America is donating their teenage daughters to Africa to make up for it or anything, right? Quit quibbling with the masses over scale of crime and just say what it is you think we should all be doing, and if it sounds reasonable and would be effective then I'll definitely consider it. Otherwise be happy, you've done your job and several here who didn't know about this incident before are now talking about it.
Perhaps we should all go hug our own children and be thankful it wasn't them? Just a thought.