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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were also a number of attacks in Beirut this week, they were barely even a blip in the media.[/quote]

Maybe because such attacks are an almost every day occurrence in the Middle East??

I feel for all victims of terrorism but personally speaking I was born in Europe, grew up reading Sartre, Camus, Anais Nin, etc, so Paris hits closer to home than the Middle East. And I will not be made to feel ashamed for feeling more shocked and dismayed at an attack on a city central to western art and civilization. [/quote]

People being killed by terrorists in Paris bothers you more than people being killed by terrorists in Beirut.

I would be ashamed of this, if it were me. But if you don't want to be ashamed of it, then don't be. [/quote]

Why be ashamed? The Russian airplane thing is horrific, but because details are not confirmed (was it a bomb? Was it not????) I don't yet know what to think/feel. As to Beirut……I agree with PP, I have been to Beirut, it is a beautiful city, but yes, this is common there. Do we hold vigil every night for shootings in Camden? No, because sadly we are immune to it. It's conditioning. Did we react to the Mumbai killings in the same way as we feel these attacks? Probably not quite, because few of us have been to Mumbai. Paris? Most of us have been there. The idea that it was intentionally done to people doing what WE do, (dine, concert, football games, etc) is disconcerting to us.

It isn't shameful to recognize that it upsetting to feel more threatened and more sympathetic to that which we directly relate to. We relate to Paris. We have the "that could be us" reaction to it. We have the "it could be here next" feeling. It scares us. Don't you understand that? If we "lived out" every tragedy that happened in every place every day we would be paralyzed by anxiety. It's a way of coping, to NOT take on every bombing, every death, every horror. This one hits us harder because we relate to it, so it gets in through our carefully placed defense mechanisms. Nothing shameful about that. [/quote]

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