Why do people feel so bad for the people who died on 9-11? People die every day...?

Question

Most people I talk to say I should feel sad about 9-11!? Why? People die every day and no one cares about them, why not? I asked one of my friends and he said I should feel bad because so many died. Lots of people die every day! Most people in 9-11 died fast, think about the people who die from being stabbed and shot, slowly dying in pain every day! What about those people?! How can you feel bad about the people who died on 9-11, and not the people who die every day?! People say they didn't know about the people who died, because they wern't on the news. People are shot & stabbed every day! If 9-11 became a holiday it would celebrate one of two things (An act of terrorism or The death of thousands of people.) If we made 9-11 a holiday, why don't we just celebrate when we nuked Japan and killed thousands then? Or better yet when the Munich Massacre happened! It just makes me mad people feel bad for those people, but not the people who die every day. I don't understand it!

Answer 1

It wasn't their time yet. Their death was horrific and very public. They died in the hands of pure evil. People do die everyday but this specific event is tragic because it touched so many families.

Answer 2

People who "die everyday" do have mourners, their families and loved ones at their memorial services. And how do you know the 9/11 victims "died fast" as you say? I'm sure many of them slowly passed on crushed between piles of rubble hoping to be found. These people were no different than the "everyday dying" except that they were taken out by terrorists because they represented a nation, so in the terrorists minds, they killed part of a nation...and that, they did.

Answer 3

It's not about them dying, it's the reason they died...

A person being murdered here and there cannot be compared with a mass killing.
Where is 9/11 a holiday? I must have missed something.
Don't be too hard on those that say they 'feel bad'.
They might be just feeling 'compassion'.

Answer 4

Um.. wow. You're asking for a huge response out of this, aren't you?

Who says people don't feel bad for the people who die every day? Who are you to say that everyone in the WORLD does not feel bad about people who die every single day?

How can you NOT feel bad for the people who died on 9-11? Obviously, you didn't lose anyone in the towers, in the pentagon or any of the planes or your story would be greatly different.

Yes people die every day, but how many people die in a mass tragedy like what happened that day?

You have a warped view of the world, a very very warped view. When people make a holiday out of something like that, it's not celebrating the deaths of people or an act of terrorism. It's remembering those who died. And I know you'll counter with why not have that for people who die every day, but those people while as tragic as it is, aren't dying as a result of an attack on the US.

I'm sure everyone remembers the day their loved one passed away, I lost my grandmother in 05 and I still remember the day and time it happened, and even though I don't "celebrate" it, I take a few moments of that day every year to pay special rememberance to her. So to put it so you can understand it, September 11, 2001 - thousands of people in the US perished. On the same day. Many at the same time. It was a massive lose covered by television and radio -- informing everyone in the country of what had happened. So - the hundreds of thousands of families, friends, and loved ones of those people who died take a few moments out of every September 11th to remember their lost loved ones. Also, the nation remembers as well because even though millions of us weren't directly effected, we still think and feel and are empathetic to those who lost someone.

I'm going to stop myself now before I say anymore and lose my temper.

Answer 5

Everyone who dies has someone who cared about them of they had relatives who were still alive and knew about them. But that doesn't dismiss the horrible way these people died. We do remember people who died in WW1, WW2 and other terrible crimes. I don't believe it should be a holiday. That would give the muslims who killed them credit for something. They shouldn't have any credit for anything. But I do feel bad for the New Yorkers who were murdered by them and the others who were in the pentagon and the planes.

Answer 6

I think we should feel bad about all the unnecessary killing in the world. It seems to me that we are just behaving like the animals that we are...all animals kill. They kill adults, females, males. They don't discriminate. They kill the weak. But the difference is, they kill to survive. Humans sometimes kill other humans for the sport. There are very few animals besides humans that have been known to kill for the sake of killing. And usually the animals that do are rare and isolated incidents. Humans have become our own worst enemy. You are absolutely right, people are killed by crazies, gang members, husbands, wives, children, robbers, drunk drivers, you name it...This war in Iraq is because we have to protect our home turf from the Bin Laden clan. Survival again...

It is extremely sad that as such an advanced race, we are so destructive to our own kind, and so hateful...one race hates another. One religion hates another. One country hates another. It seems to all be about power in some way or another...

I don't feel bad so much for the people that died, but for the people who loved them. The same way I feel bad every time I see a young mother and a new baby who will never see their husband/father again because he was killed in the war in Iraq. Just this week a woman lost her husband who was due to come home in 10 weeks. He had never seen his 5 week old son...

It is sad that people have to die because of hate. That is what makes me sad.

Answer 7

What makes you think we dont feel bad for others who die everyday? What a silly assumption and generalization.
We cant stop everyday to have a national day of mourning for everyone murdered, but special days like 911 and Pearl Harbor for instance, we can.
60 years later we still honor those who died at Pearl Harbor, and 60 years from now i still intend on honoring those who died on 911.

Answer 8

Because the deaths aren't an academic exercise to me! Two people I knew were on the plane which hit the Pentagon. And I dont celebrate. I commemorate.

Answer 9

yes people do die everyday, but 9-11 over 3000 people died, their deaths were horrible, it was televised on TV. people are going to remember this until they die. maybe if you had a heart you would understand it.

Answer 10

i think the comparable in a fashion. I mean in case you think of roughly it human beings DO die usual. this is terrible what surpassed off regardless of the undeniable fact that this is been 10 years already and lots worse has surpassed off. death is purely an element of existence... and that i will sound heartless yet Im no longer, Im purely being straightforward.