( lame excuses for public silence )

I rarely say anything about disasters here. (One exception was when I talked about how small tragedies affect me more than large ones.[1]) But today I read how the Pakistan earthquake will likely cost 50,000 lives, and I was reminded of many of the comments I heard after Hurricane Katrina. People wanted to point fingers and assign blame, despite it ( Read more... )

Kind of up there with by dislike of the inconsistency of personifying evolution [1] is my dislike with yet another disaster related occurance:

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Yet another way in which it turns out that I think like C.S. Lewis did: In his autobiography of his early life, he mentioned how he was never much moved by tales of wars and battles, because the struggles of the many did not affect him. It was the struggles of small groups or individuals that affected him ( Read more... )