[spacebandit]

Originally posted by Retroman
If you truly value strangers lives, you'll feel equal loss for all of them and maintain them ALL in your memory for the same amount of time. And not just trust the media to tell you how long you'll feel sad for and how sad you should be feeling.

Afraid your logic is flawed

I feel a sadness for those people and their families because of the circumstances - much like I felt some sadness when I saw the faces of a family in a funeral procession that drove by me yesterday. A sadness, not a grieving - that passed away from me pretty quickly as I got on with my life.

Sadness is a human emotion, and it has levels - though clearly not for you

It was not the same level of sadness or emotion that I would have felt had I known the deceased personally, or were the deceased a family member or loved one - that would be grieving

There is though the one major difference between a stranger a few streets away and the strangers who were victims of 9/11 which makes it "different", a concept you seem incapable of grasping.

I never watched the stranger round the corner, or any of the other strangers who die in my town every day.....

die live on TV