[Red Sea Swimmer]

You wrote...

"This was really not a very major event except in Sumatra."

You are in desperate need of an empathy transplant.

How far does your "Boundary of Concern" extend ?

1 - Your lounge room 2 - Your bank account 3 - Your reflection in the mirror

Your comment adds nothing to a terrible situation. It neither uplifts, informs or assists. You offer no sympathy for the victims and you minimize the disaster which is historically significant in its breadth and nature.

Perspective for some is a word to look up in the dictionary.

[beyond the sea]

Your comment adds nothing to a terrible situation. It neither uplifts, informs or assists. You offer no sympathy for the victims and you minimize the disaster which is historically significant in its breadth and nature. ......... Perspective for some is a word to look up in the dictionary.

You arer so right, RSS. He/she also added this alarmingly foolish and insensitive gem to me in post # 9 --"This was really not a very major event except in Sumatra."

I told him/her that that just may be the most foolish comment of the year even after the next 364 days, but he/she seems to have given you a few also.

[shubi]

Millions die of malaria each year because over-sensitive animal lovers distort the science and won't allow DDT to be sprayed.

Millions of babies are flushed down the drain in abortions each year.

Where is your empathy and sanctimony for these victims?

Stop blubbering. Life is a risk.

[Ciexyz]

You are in desperate need of an empathy transplant.

I am impressed by your ability to frame words in Post #14. I may steal that line and go back to the thread "Bush orders flags flown at half staff", where posters are arguing that Bush has abandoned the Constitution and lamenting that the new Republican hymn is "We are the world".

[daybreakcoming]

Like you, I would have hoped not to find an Ugly American here - but it appears we have.