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a more "discussion" topic about 9/11 (you may hate me but please think about it...)?

yes 9/11 was bad but i over heard some people talking about it today at school saying its the worst disaster thats ever happened, (i should've spoke up) but i disagree with that. I mean, yes it was devastating, but i noticed how decicated both cananda and america were to contributing more to poverty and research for AIDS/HIV and vaccination in africa and other countries, but right when 9/11 hit, our complete attention/money/focus was on that and we turned our backs on the countries in even more need. i am not an american citizen, but compare how many people died in 9/11 and then look how many people die in more poor countries everyday (it's probably 10x as much). The people who died in 9/11 and the people who were afflicted with it had/have more privilage than an average citizen in guatamala. it sickens me...but i am curious to see answers and responces to this (i know some may be harsh or maybe some agree) be free to express your answers no matter what content they may be....

Public Comments

1. omg, i DON'T hate you for mentioning that! i have a point like that that i wanted to get out too! i can love you for bringing this up! ok, so america is making a HUGE deal of 9/11, and it is devastating, but i think it can possibly be a desperate call for attention. there are people dying every single day of our lives. there are people dying from war conditions in the middle east and perhaps other wars that we are not participating in. all we think about is US. we list these people's names (who died in 9/11) but do we take a moment to think of all the others of the world?! few of us... sometimes. some of these people disappear and we don't even know! theres poverty and devastation EVERYWHERE around us, and we should count our blessings when worse happens all over the world even more often than that event here. it makes me want to cry sometimes thinking of this. instead we make a huge deal about perhaps one of the smaller things that has happened to us. those people that die out there, there names are even unknown because there are too many to count. you don't see them on the media day and night giving memorials on a certain day every year. 9/11 is sad, don't get me wrong, but it could've been much worse for all we know.