Two minute silence

[ciphergoth]

At 12:00 BST today, London and many around the world observed a two minute silence for the 48 people who died in the terrorist attacks on London on 7 July.

During those two minutes, approximately 42 children worldwide died due to poverty.

We are not going to let terrorists cause us to lose perspective.

Comments

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

I see where you are coming from but I think it is possible to distinguish between what you feel and keeping a sense of perspective intellectually. The bombing of the World Trade Centre was appalling but the worldwide media response appeared disproportionate, to me at least, given the sort of statistics P quotes. That to me is a political matter which it is worth emphasising regardless of how upset or indeed removed one feels from all global atrocities/injustices. I agree entirely that there is no point trying to force yourself to feel guilty.