Steve Irwin Dead

mkosmo writes "News.com.au is reporting that Steve Irwin was killed in a freak accident while filming one of his well known documentaries. Surprisingly it wasn't a crocodile, it was a sting-ray."

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Re:oblig

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I'm all for perspective in addressing tragedy and agree that the ridiculous coverage 9/11 gets cf the millions that die annually in the third word is farcical.

There's nothing disproportionate or farcical about the coverage 9/11 gets. There is nothing necessarily terrible about dying. There is something very terrible about murder. On 9/11, group of people, out of nothing but idealized hatred for the people of another country, intentionally created a living hell amongst those people, in which thousands of innocents were burned alive, suffocated, or crushed to death, and thousands more survived to live with the memory. Having accomplished this, they rejoiced and celebrated. The nature of this act sets it apart as one of the vivid examples that history provides us of the nature of evil.

Of course, the highly confused will say stupid things like "America is the real terrorist." Do they understand the destructive power of America's nuclear arsenal? If an American president had the mentality of any one of these Islamic death cultists, Mecca and Medina would be smouldering grease smudges in the desert, and Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria would be one big glowing wasteland. But those following or attempting to follow a path of good have such "burdens" as nuanced thought, compassion, and restraint.