| | On Sep 11th 2001
Atanu Dey's post on this resonates with what I feel.
It is not immediately clear why the death of 3,016 should merit all that global attention and grief. Yesterday, 10,000 children died of malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases. Three times as many died yesterday as were killed on Sept 11th 2001. They were humans too. Where is all the breast beating and the public mourng for those innocent 10,000? And not just those 10,000. What about the 10,000 that died the day before? And the day before? What about them? What about the 7,000,000 children who died since Sept 11th 2001?
Is it because the 3,016 were Americans that all the world has to put everything on hold and mourn those dead? Is it because the US can bomb 10,000 innocent Afghanis in retribution for their 3,016 dead that the world has to collectively mourn the American deaths and not give a second's thought to the 7,000,000 children that have also died for no fault of their own?
Why are American lives so much more valuable than the lives of other humans?
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