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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are kidding, right?  No shame here.
Parisian values are a proxy for our values--the attack on them is an attack on us.  They were just easier to get to.  It is not a matter of more or less sympathy.  People are reacting to the fact that WE have been attacked, and there is no end in sight.  Your nutty question is like asking Americans after Pearl Harbor why they hadn't been equally shaken by god knows, the massacre of Nanking. It was horrific, but not an attack on the US.  It is not revulsion / sympathy we feel. It is revulsion, sympathy, fear, outrage AND a call to action..[/quote]

So people in Paris = us, and people in Beirut, Mumbai, etc. = not us?

But the people who died were equally human.[/quote]

Newton = us

Black on black gun violence = not us

Plight of the middle class = us

Plight of welfare queens (because they're all lazy frauds, right?) = not us

I don't believe what I just typed--but you might...or some other Americans might. It's human nature.

I think Paris struck a chord because citizens all across Europe and America are wondering who's next. It was easier to avoid thinking about it when it seemed contained to the Middle East. No one is saying that one innocent life matters more than another...all lives matter. [/quote]

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