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Originally posted by Not Me
I don't feel it is disrespectful, just like I don't think it is disrepectful to show pictures of Pearl Harbor being bombed. Just the opposite.
I am sure it is much more difficult for those of you who live in NYC. Just like if you post a picture of the Bay Bridge after the 1989 earthquake that would be much harder to view if your family member was killed in the earthquake. It would also unnerve me as I sit here between the San Andreas and the Hayward.
Maybe we should stop discussing 9/11 and earthquakes.
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Who said anything about discussing it? Like Ty said -- that person was someone's father, brother, friend -- it's akin to officiously intruding on someone's grief, with a whiff of prurient leering thrown in. No one needs to see that. Did you want to see the beheading tape? I thought you expressed the view that no one in his right mind would want/need to see that -- how is this any different?
To see images of the planes crashing into the buildings, while horrendous and disturbing are less intimate and private than focusing on the pain and suffering of one individual as he falls to his death.
Why do I bother? If you can't see this distinction, there's really no point.
