B A R R Y writes:

What a truly stupid thing to say.

I don't see anything stupid about it. It's important to keep things in
perspective.

I'm always amazed by how skewed the perceptions of death can be. When 32
people are shot by a nutcase, it becomes a Major Media Event and a national
day of mourning. When 150,000 are killed by an atomic bomb in a distant
foreign country, it is a cause for celebration, with not a single tear shed.

People become indignant when others refuse to wail with grief over the deaths
of those the former consider important, but they simultaneously show precisely
the same indifference towards the untold millions of others who are dying
throughout the world. It's an extreme case of tunnel vision, and it's a form
of irrational emotion that is dangerous to society.

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