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Remembering September 11th...
Authored by: bilalb on Aug 10, '04 09:40:01AM

If I admit that I felt relief to hear after the bombing of Baghdad that my own relatives were unharmed, will anyone accuse me of tribalism? After all, it simply meant *other* people had died, who after all are worth no less.

But to be more affected by the pain of those we can relate to is simply human. So give the man - Rob - a break.

Sure, it's debatable whether extending the 'family privilege' to nations doesn't breed evil. There is a case and there are forums for discussing it, but *that's* the issue that's out of place on a software forum, *not* Rob's public remembrance on his own website of a focal day that affected him personally.

So to all the politically like-minded who saw red: think for a moment about whether *you* succeed at feeling universal love and brotherhood for all people all the time.

A suggestion to Rob, if I may: my guess is that some react allergically to the use of the logo more than to what you said, because it might be associated with pseudo-patriotic, with-us-or-against-us in-your-face institutionalization of the event. Maybe without it more people would be willing to listen.

Peace.



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