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[b]Why be ashamed? [/b]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]

Why be ashamed when people get blown up by terrorists in Paris and we're deeply shaken, but people get blown up by terrorists in Beirut and we shrug? I think that question answers itself.[/quote]

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