After reviewing what happened yesterday, I was heart-broken, people making 9/11 jokes, recreating the incident, making "tributes" and spamming them all over the place (I'm not going to reveal names, for privacy and respect) I decided something. Someone had to talk about it and here I am, writing to strangers on the internet who don't even remember me. I just want to say, that it doesn't matter if you think it was ironic and government stuff, just please bring respect, many people on this site lost relatives in that horrible day, just like in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, just bring some respect, I'm sure that it wouldn't be nice if someone laughed at your face, made jokes, and had the fake sad face on just for worthless points after your relative's death. It doesn't matter if it was many years ago, it's called respect and empathy. Just that, don't take anything for granted, have respect, and appreciate life.
Please also, don't upvote this post, it wouldn't be really respectful for the victims. Goodbye.
@KnightOfAraluen Excactly. It's all about having empathy.
@Sunnyskies Do you know the meaning of respect? All loss of life is significant. I dont care if some random person in Africa dies. I dont know them, I dont know anybody who does know them. Their death was still significant because there are people who do care. They probably had relatives. What if your relatives dies during 9/11? You would care.
@KingDeadshot Of course, it's just that minority of people who were that unsensitive. Kudos to you.
I'll let that sit with you
@Sunnyskies Have you even read what I said? Have some respect. You're saying that massive deaths shouldn't be remembered and aren't a big deal. Just have some respect.
It's been 15 years, and only a few thousand people died. It's really not a big deal anymore.
Should we have remembrances for other major losses of life?
In 1975, a series of dam failures led to deaths of 171,000 people.
In 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred in India. As many as 16,000 were killed.
In 1987, the ferry Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker at sea in the Philippines. 4,386 people died.
In 2002, the ferry Le Joola capsized, killing 1,864.
In 2004, a tsunami swept away a train, killing up to 1,700 people in Sri Lanka
Not long ago in 2005, 2,268 were trampled to death in Mecca.
And that's just the small stuff. If we start pulling numbers from natural disasters, you'll be amazed.
MILLIONS were killed by flooding in China back in 1931.
Up to half a million people were killed by Bhola cyclone in Pakistan, 1970.
280,000 people were killed as a result of the earthquake in 2004.
20,000 killed by an avalanche in Peru in 1970.
And I won't even start listing of deaths caused by diseases and warfare.
You could make a tribute post EVERY DAY for some large loss of life. So just don't.
Basically, 9/11 was pretty insignificant, and only seems like it wasn't because of how publicized it was by the sensationalist media of the United States, and the resultant global reach of the news coverage of the event. In the end, it was just a bold terrorist attack carried out by a small handful of renegades, nothing more.
I made a tribute forum post, but 9/11 jokes are awful