Why does everyone think 9/11 is so terrible?

Question

I mean, only about 10 buildings were damanged and 3,000 people died. So what? We've killed tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan and probably destroyed that many buildings too! And guess what? Out of those 10 or 20 thousand people, about 3 or 4 thousand of them were nnocent?

Answer 1

Because it was on TV, over and over.

And it was white people, not brown or black ones.

Answer 2

Yes, in the big picture the lives lost on 9/11 are only a small part but the US mainland was effectively attacked for the first time in almost 200 years.

I am wondering if we should attack the White House when the US death toll in Iraq reaches the same number in Mr Bush's war for corporate profit.

For Miss Diva, if we hung traitors Bush would be at the top of the line, and BTW the FULL quote is: "My country Right or Wrong, if Right to be Kept Right, if Wrong to be Set Right"

Neocon fascist Bushbots forget that last part.

Answer 3

It was terrible, indeed. But the reason it has reached mythical importance is that it was the first major attack in this country for 150 years. We Amerians have gotten quite used to peace at home. When it happens abroad, we don't experience the horror and too many people in the USA feel that the ethnic cleansing is justifiable.

Actually the death tolls abroad are in the hundreds of thousands. Where do you get the figure for the proportion of innocent people?

Answer 4

Duhh! People, human beings died of all nationalities. What a real desensitized question. If it was someone you loved or cared about would you think it was terrible? 2 wrongs don't make a right they probably did kill thousands of innocent people in Iraq but we will never know how many because they want you to think its all justified cause alot of nations got their hands in those countries.
Plus alot of economic/political/religious conflicts going on. Just sad innocent lives get caught up in this cycle.

Answer 5

you piss me off! only 3000 people died?! only?! don't you value their lives? if you don't, you have a problem. we are in afghanistan because of 9/11, or didn't you know that? why don't you care about lives in america, but only lives in afghanistan, or iraq? you don't think the people in the buildings had worth? the people in the buildings were not innocent? there were only two buildings damaged, and the pentagon, yet you say only 10 buildings. you are speaking uniformed.in other words, you don't know what you are talking about. how dare you discount the american lives that were taken, for no reason!

Answer 6

Well, all the people involved with 9/11 were innocent except for the people who planned it. I think its wrong to minimize the consequences of one event simply because another was worse. I think one of the worst things about 9/11 was not how many people died but how and why and the shock that accompanied it.

Answer 7

Because my uncle died in the terrorist attack. That's why. Someone I loved, and thousands of other people who had families, children, parents DIED. Yes, innocent people have died in Iraq, is it right? No, but guess what, Saddam was murdering them long before we got there and a lot more of them before we got there. Should we compare our actions against his? We're still doing them a great justice by getting them out of there, and ANOTHER THING! We aren't the ones KILLING innocent people. Rebel Iraqi fighters and terrorists are. We're trying to protect them.

Answer 8

9/11 was a horrible thing that Americans are not used to having happen on their own soil. It's not the number of people who died that matters, only that anyone had to die.

Answer 9

There's no one answer to your question, and you're right, the end doesn't justify the means.

Either way, thousands of innocent people have died.

If women were in charge, none of this rubbish would be going on!

Answer 10

because it was done by terrorists whose plan was and still is to bring America down, and it was a devastating event for so many people, and there was so much gore from people taking their own lives, from so many being pulled from the rubble, and so many heroes. I think if where you live was flattened to the ground and you were walking around in rubble unable to breathe, that "might" finally wake you up.

Answer 11

you have a good point... but they hit us first. and you can tell from our history that america likes revenge a little too much... for example pearl harbor... about 1500 american soilders were killed... then we had to go a-bomb not 1, but 2 cities in japan killing over 800,000 innocent people. america is great and all... but i definatly dont agree with the government.