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Originally Posted by csargeni
you are not here to watch the local news constantly..
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Sadly, these days it doesn't really matter what you see on the local news, because they show you what they want you to see. In Iraq they showed people being murdered, decapitated and just awful torture, but I never heard anyone feeling sorry for their poor souls after seeing that, because no-one here actually saw it.
Like Greg said, taking a look at the statistics, the tsunami was worse (if I'm correct, but I don't see how this could be wrong), but then again people's lives aren't worth any more or less depending on what happened to you and how many. Both these are still tragedies.
The difference is that people actually knew about the hurricane beforehand...