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[bquinlan]

The article below was originally posted by a user identified as jsm on a the site http://www.adequacy.org/ in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th of 2001.  The text below is untouched, except for the substitution in two places of the name of this latest

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[teresa_c]

Oy. What kind of depresses me is the predictability of what everyone is going to say. We have, unfortunately, had enough of certain kinds of tragedies that a clear and predictable pattern emerges of what the dialogue will be like in the aftermath. Like knowing how the movie will end when you're only partway in.

It does please me when someone says something new, though, and that does occasionally happen.

[merde]

you know, you're not the only person on my friendslist who's posted something along these lines (although this is by far the most obnoxiously judgmental version), but i don't think that interpretation of people's motives is entirely fair or accurate. it's natural that people want to discuss an occurrence like this, and it's natural that people look for solutions, ways to prevent it from happening again, and it's natural that the ideas they come up with are usually in line with their own beliefs

[madspark]

On the other other hand, I have two words:

Jack Thompson

(and a few more; "and people like him")