Agreed Steve
Best
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: Rennie, Steve [HES] <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 14 September 2001 12:47
Subject: Re: couldn't care less?
>The deaths of many thousands of people by acts of violence should horrify
us all, but we do no service to ourselves if we evidently believe that this
dreadful act is in any way unique, or even particularly unusual in relation
to the human condition. In addition, it drives a wedge between peoples if
similar events are treated very differently on the basis of the social
context of the victims. 'Natural' disasters kill similar numbers in
countries which lack defensive infrastructure year on year. Wars around the
globe do similar damage. Those of us from the western/northern world have
committed similarly horrifying acts in our self interests, or have colluded
with those who have done them in our names. The fact that so many of us saw
this incident in real time brings it closer and makes the experience more
real, though no less vicarious, so we can expect many people to be affected
by that, but we must not lose sight of it as just another dreadful outcome
of aggression and despa!
>ir. To do otherwise offers no useful support to anyone we work with who is
troubled by the event, but was not directly or closely indirectly involved.
>
>Stephen Rennie, Leeds Metropolitan University
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: K Rowell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:51 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: couldn't care less?
>>
>> Gerald
>> Your email included:
>> (clients) "trying to express to us that they couldn't care less about the
>> situation"
>>
>> How could anyone care less about thousands upon thousands of people
dieing
>> all at one time, within less then an hour? Have we as a world ever
>> experienced a mass death like this in such a short period of time? The
>> actions of the criminals I can understand a 'couldn't care less' or good
for
>> them, but not care that so very many people died all at once? If this is
so,
>> that there are many people in the world that have no sympathy or empathy
for
>> what I am thinking may be closer to 50,000 or more dead (100 story's
times 2
>> times 500 to 1000 people per floor), I have little hope for humanity.
>>
>> Are they perhaps a reflection of humanities shadow or is it a load of
beans
>> that at a basic level we want to live in harmony?
>>
>> On the other hand. One of the challenges I have recognized in supporting
>> others in their process is being able to honestly acknowledge their
>> perceptions/beliefs when they differ greatly from my own. I understand
that
>> this is an important thing to do and do authentically.
>>
>> Needing to spout,
>> Kathryn
>> confused and wondering
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