I didn't care when the World Trade Center blew up.

Speaking of which, does anyone know of any memorial services or anything planned for this year? It's the tenth anniversary.

 

Eh I'm sure they'll make a meal of it. Just turn on CNN the day of the anniversary. But maybe not so sure. The more anniversaries pass by, the more people realize how long we've really been in Afghanistan.

It could be quicker than you think, but they would never straight up ignore it.

 

I feel sorry for those apparently incapable of feeling compassion. If something doesn't happen to them, it simply doesn't happen. What a sad, tiny, insular world in which to exist.

 

Look, feeling is relative. If you want to sit there and tell me that my world is insular, that's just fine. But don't call my existence sad, as if yours is somehow better than mine. The fact that I didn't stand around my TV set crying about things that have happened 2000 miles away would prove me a little bit happier than everyone else at the time.

In fact I feel as though I have an excellent opportunity to view the situation more honestly without all those clear memories fogging up my judgment of the whole thing. Along with the fact that all the inherent fear that the media pumped into everyone, didn't effect me at all. There are worse tragedies, both in the past and in the future. Letting one of them grab hold is mental suicide. There's just nothing you can do about it.

 

Life isn't just about being happy. If it were we'd all only have one emotion. It's also about compassion, relating to others, feeling sad for others, empathy, sympathy, etc.

I don't advocate a shared morality though. If one doesn't feel bad for something, they shouldn't be made to feel bad for not feeling bad.

 

This thread was clearly created just for controversy...the OP obviously wants some attention....but i think if there really are people that didn't sympathize for nyc at that time.. they might as well join the terrorists. I would wonder if the OP would have laughed if that was a close family member of theirs jumping from the building...doubtful. I think everyone got tired of hearing about it after awhile...we all wanted to move on and go back to normal...but anyone who can say they didn't care that thousands of innocent people were murdered that day..has got a fucked up soul and you're lying when you say ...you're nice...you can't be a good person and say shit like that..you have a sick sense of humor whoever you are...and i wish you were brave enough to say that in public..in person...not hide behind a computer....try going to time square...and talk that shit you posted...see who laughs last.

 

It's not that most of these people don't feel compassion. It's that they're not liars. They're not so selective that they can sob over something just because it's on their TV all the time, and not give much thought to the fact that thousands of people are dying all over the place in hideous ways. If we honestly spread so much compassion that we lamented equally and fairly, we would be sobbing all day every day and would get nothing done.

Which raises the point of what is the use? Do you have to make a scene in order to prove you're a compassionate person? No. You can quietly acknowledge the tragedy and move on. Nobody but sociopaths are denying that 9/11 was incredibly sad. The honest are saying "but mass killings happen all the time, all over the globe..." THAT recognition is the opposite of "insular".

 

I bet if your friend, family or significant other were killed you'd feel differently. AT LEAST I HOPE SO.

 

Well, personally, yes. As someone who isn't a liar, I can say "of course I would."

I am human, and the people I know and love are completely precious to me and my every day life. We are social animals by nature, usually living in family-type groups. We form close bonds with some and never get to know others. Obviously, with billions of people on the planet, this only makes sense.

I personally would feel a lot more distressed, possibly even destroyed if someone I was close to was in the building. That doesn't mean I don't value all human life. I recognise that all life is precious, all humans are humans and may be just as worthy as my loved ones, making any deaths at all saddening. But I couldn't possibly get as cut up as I would over my family dying over every single person or group of people I ever hear about dying. That is a totally absurd suggestion for obvious reasons.

 

I think people react diffrently to things. i can honestly say i was sad to see what happened on that day. but i guess some people see it as, "well its not effected my life personally, so why should i care" which is fair enough i guess. there is a lot of shit going on in this world and if we all cryed and got depressed by every murder we would all be be locked up in the looney bin.

but to the OP, seriously, fair enough if it did not effect you, as i said above, its not effected ur personal life, so why should u care right? i mean its not like it was ur father or brother or son jumping head first from the building? its not like any of ur loved ones was blown up. so it shouldnt effect you? i guess thats ur choice, i personally dont agree with it, but who am i to judge? as for finding it funny, well thats just messed up really. but heyhoooo

 

I think ya'll have successfully been trolled.

 

Nope, Fluffernutter is an on/off sort've poster

If you see, they have 110 posts since 2005.

 

I know what you mean, all I could think when the WTC collapsed was wow this is better than a sci-fi movie and was hoping it would cause world war 3 so that life would no longer be the same and then when i realised that all that was going to happen was george bush was going to make yet another dull speech about how we needed to go and attack an ant hill in the middle of a desert somewhere i realised that i was secretly thinking - I wish they had invaded china instead it would have meant i could have a popcorn and milkshake-fest watching the news and pretending i was a great military strategist that knew exactly what was going to happen aqnd ranting when they didnt do it. I was very disappointed and wondered why such a whimp was the american president if he wasnt going to attack china for the lulz

 

^this is a bit like how I felt about it.

I remember at the time the towers were coming down I was just in shock that it was real.

But afterwards I was never emotionally distraught for the people who lost their lives. Somebody's mother dies every day.

I was concerned about the impending social consequences, which were, as it turned out, riddled with racism and violence.

I suspect some part of people's emotional responses were because they thought it was expected of them.

It's an act of conformity, a unifying pain.

My pain was for the changes in the world around me, the racism, the wars, the fear... Not for the people that died. People die in all manner of circumstances every day.

I'm certain I'm not a sociopath. In fact it is my nature to think sociologically that prevents me from being emotionally distraught over the deaths of people while my social environment is changing drastically and rapidly.

 

Death is more worser then anything, your never coming back again. Think about it. :boxing_smiley:

 

i cared only on a personal level - it was awful to hear people had died in such an incident

but i felt no empathy for america as a country. i'm still half convinced you guys blew yourselves up, and either way, it was only a matter of time.

 

opps wrong building..

 

I felt like dang that sucks that those people had to get blown up and thought dang that must be sad for their families and thought darn that situation would suck to be in but luckily I am here in california chillin.

other than that though I did not care much cus bad shit happens in the world everyday. I do not like that bad shit happens but why think about it to much. just hope that good stuff happens to you and hope you get lucky.

people who go to war gotta have no emotions about things.
if you are a soldier going to iraq as infantry or something you gotta not care much cus your buddy could die right next to you getting his head blown off and you just gotta be like whatever and stay focused and move on or else you will get your head blown off too.

 

I don't think anyone really cares about other people's suffering unless they've got somekinda personal interest but if you don't show you care then it looks bad so everyone just 'goes through the motions'. I think it's strange you didn't care about an attack on the place where you lived though. It could have been you if the planes hadn't hit their target and crashed into your building.

 

You mean the rest of the world doesn't like a big bully who goes around bombing poor people and keeping hundreds of bases across the planet? WTF dude.