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[Joe Shlabotnik]

I was saying this in the other thread but after I heard about I was a little sad and shocked. Felt bad for everyone involved. Then I just went about my business. It sucks but what can you do? Idk, I am a parent so I thought I would be a little more shook up than I am. Something's wrong with me I think...

Nothing's wrong with you.

 

[DR2K]

It's not, but the bolded part is what makes it feel worse for certain people. It's sad but true, some kid dying in your neighborhood won't feel the same as compared to a kid on the other side of the planet. That's just how it is.

Closer in the sense that it's in the US and being explained and reported on in much greater depth. Child murders are huge rating boosters.

 

[daw840]

Nothing's wrong with you.

It's just fucking odd to me that all these people so far removed from this tragedy are weeping uncontrollably. I just don't get it. Idk. Not that theirs anything wrong with it, I just really don't get it.

 

[Hawkian]

It's just fucking odd to me that all these people so far removed from this tragedy are weeping uncontrollably. I just don't get it. Idk. Not that theirs anything wrong with it, I just really don't get it.

I don't get it either. I mean, I don't exactly have a personal link to it. My ex's good friend's cousin was one of the teachers killed... but I didn't know the friend or the cousin, or anything. I don't know what it is. Maybe the fact that it was so many small children, or maybe the timing. Maybe it's how it transpired and the things people are saying in the aftermath, I just keep coming back to it and breaking down.