Before you start accusing me of being even more of a heartless bitch than you already thought, allow me to state my point of view...
I am human, I am fully capable of empathy; losing a loved one no matter the circumstances is hard and heartbreaking. It's a pain that everyone on this planet shares multiple times in their lives (admittedly some more than others). That is the one guarantee about life, it ends and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Having said that, I've cried over the loss of strangers or even people that I really didn't care for just for the simple fact that I can empathize with the loss that their loved ones are feeling.
9-11 was a tragedy that rocked our country to its very core. The impact that it had was felt for various reasons the most relevant being, the scale of the foreign attack on our home soil and the number of lives lost.
Scale, 3000 people, that is a large number but not larger than the number of people who die in this country everyday for other reasons. Yet, this is so much more tragic because they all died in the same space/time? If all of those same people still died the same day but in car crashes scattered throughout the nation would you still remember them, would you feel so "heartbroken" today? Is the pain someone feels due to losing a loved one in the attack more valid than the pain of a mother who lost her child in childbirth, more tragic than the pain of a child who lost their father in a drive by shooting?
Have you even once stopped to contemplate the number of people who die to terrorism on a daily basis in other countries? The people who live through events like 9-11 on a daily basis? Is this country's loss more important than theirs?
I already know what most would say "This is more real to us because they were Americans and it happened here."
So what you're saying is that because the people lost were Americans their lives were more valuable than the lives of the people lost in other countries? Our pain is more significant than the pain felt by the hundreds of thousands of people in the other countries? In 2011 over 600 people in Iraq were killed in car bombings, more than 600 just to car bombings, that's not including other acts of terrorism. Reread that and let it sink in for a moment.
You know what I hate worse than Christians of convenience? Humans of convenience. To those who are incapable of understanding that I will explain.
I hate all the people who need a holiday or tragedy to remind them how to be human. Christmas, Veteran's day, Thanksgiving, today, etc The days of the year when everyone goes around preaching about how they and everyone else should show respect and love one another... every life is precious, make love not war blah blah blah. Fuck you! You should behave that way everyday.
Saying that you'll never forget the lives lost in 9-11 doesn't make up for the fact that you treat people like shit every other day of the year and would gladly step on the throat of someone to get ahead in life.
You're all fucking hypocrites.
I behave the same way everyday no matter the circumstances. I treat people how they deserve to be treated, if you're a good person I'll treat you as such, on the other hand if you are a loser waste of flesh, I'll treat you accordingly.
I've made it quite clear that I prefer the animal kingdom to humanity, I've never seen an animal go out of it's way to fuck someone over out of maliciousness. Animals follow their instincts, if they eat you it was because they were hungry, not because they were jealous of your new shoes.
I've gotten a little more derailed than I intended so I'll just end this here..
Moral of the story: A human life is a human life, none more valuable than the next. Everyone is somebody to someone. Stop being an "American" and start being human. If you so value life then stop preaching about it and start proving it. Talk is cheap and so is your fake ass humanitarian bullshit.
