What can I really say?
About the Tsunami.
Probably the single-most tragic natural disaster in modern human history. (my knowledge of "modern human history" isn't very extensive, so I could be wrong.)
I really don't know how to expand. Words lose me.
The idea of people dying in the six figures, and millions more being left displaced would make even the most heartless person feel SOMETHING. In my eyes at least, the deaths aren't as tragic as the lives that many of the survivors will now have to live... filled with sadness (and helplessness in the case of orphans and the elderly) over the loss of loved ones, stricken with diseases, left to live a life of hunger, thirst and general psychological trauma.
This is a bit off-topic but someone said something to me after the Tsunami... something like: "So yeah... this is a way bigger tragedy than 9/11." In terms of the loss of human life, it certainly is more tragic, but I really don't like comments like that one. How could you possibly compare those two tragedies? One was murder, the other one was something out of human control. You can't FIGHT nature (unless you're Mr. Burns), you COULD fight murderers though and do what you can in your control to prevent further murders. So in that sense, in most people's understanding of justice, they consider cold-blooded murder to be more tragic than deaths due to natural disasters, which is legitimate, isn't it?
Probably the single-most tragic natural disaster in modern human history. (my knowledge of "modern human history" isn't very extensive, so I could be wrong.)
I really don't know how to expand. Words lose me.
The idea of people dying in the six figures, and millions more being left displaced would make even the most heartless person feel SOMETHING. In my eyes at least, the deaths aren't as tragic as the lives that many of the survivors will now have to live... filled with sadness (and helplessness in the case of orphans and the elderly) over the loss of loved ones, stricken with diseases, left to live a life of hunger, thirst and general psychological trauma.
This is a bit off-topic but someone said something to me after the Tsunami... something like: "So yeah... this is a way bigger tragedy than 9/11." In terms of the loss of human life, it certainly is more tragic, but I really don't like comments like that one. How could you possibly compare those two tragedies? One was murder, the other one was something out of human control. You can't FIGHT nature (unless you're Mr. Burns), you COULD fight murderers though and do what you can in your control to prevent further murders. So in that sense, in most people's understanding of justice, they consider cold-blooded murder to be more tragic than deaths due to natural disasters, which is legitimate, isn't it?
posted by Japnaam Singh at
12:27 AM
7 Comments:
Great point, I have come accross that comment as well and the two situations definetely aren't analagous.
murder and natural disasters definitely do not come under the same banner and should therefore receive different treatment. i am glad,though, that many countries are rallying together to provide relief......we need to move on;it's a new year, let's remember and say a prayer for the one's who perished and place our focus on helping those who survived this disaster.
The ravages of AIDS in subsaharan Africa probably rivals the tsunami disaster. However, It's not happening all at once. There are children raising other children b/c their parents have died from AIDS and their grandparents have died from old age. And yes, to a very large degree it is preventble.
I remember one of the most dissapointing stories I read last year... when an AIDS group was criticizing the Bush Administration for pledging 'too much' ($15 Billion) to help battle and deal with the African AIDS epidemic. That's right. "Too much" to handle, or something like that.
how come you and mkhalsa posted they exact same thing?
I wrote a post, and he simply copied it and linked to it.
Wasn't that big Iranian quake a couple of years ago just about as high in numbers as the current estimate for the tsunami?..But of course this is going to be worse.With all the dead(animal life too) a lot of whom will never be recovered,combined with the wet weather and pooled water from the tsunami waves,I believe the sickness spread by pollutted water and insects will make the original disaster look almost trivial......There's whole villages gone.Nobody knows how many orphaned kids.It'll take years to rebuild,and hopefully,if the corrupt UN is kept out of the loop,a lot of the money will be used to rebuild,no, the better term would be,create an infrastructure.
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