You didn't explain why you felt moved to make an inflammatory crack about some of the people who had just been killed. I'd be interested to hear what your justification is for doing such a thing. It reminds me of a nasty adolescent saying hateful things about someone's mother. But in your situation, you said them at the mother's funeral.
I know you didn't "claim the people who died deserved their horrible deaths," but why did you make the gratuitous crack you did make? Almost 3000 people had died horrible deaths. Why a wisecrack about the traders you used to deal with among them not being innocent types, maybe even being unscrupulous or something? What was the point?
And why would anyone care what public policy a person so blind to what's decent behavior among human beings advocates?
I mean this seriously, RD. If you are a cruel, cold, mean person who thinks unimaginable suffering (which continues, in the families of the dead, except for in the survivors who have committed suicide from grief) is good wisecrack-material, why should anyone care about your prescription for a better country or world?
It's a serious question: Why should anyone care what a shallow, unpleasant, unfeeling person advocates regarding how our society should be run? You appear to be striving to be a kind of negative testimonial for your social values, in fact.
I've wondered this about other people, but never asked someone before, in this direct way. Maybe you could throw some light on the mystery. I'd really be interested, if you'd answer seriously. |
