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Are mass killings becoming a new norm? : Comments
By Robert Mclean, published 28/12/2012Many shocked by events at the Newtown school see themselves as pacifists, but stand with a government that commits similar, or worse, atrocities in other countries.
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Issues such as why Adam Lanza's mental ill health not identified? And how could, in a country with a population 12 times larger than Australia but the same land mass, someone drop-out of society so much as to get to a place where they would do this?
But I do note with interest, and some not inconsiderable respect, the authors note about the civilian 'casualties' that go unreported and unmourned. "Are some children automatically more valuable than others in our eyes?" The answer - of course. If we do not know them and cannot see them then they are valueless to us. If they die, well it doesn't affect me so why should I care? Maybe this explains the issues above - out of sight, out of mind. Even within our own neighbourhoods.