news...from over a decade ago.

[rarr_raptor]

a short excerpt from  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch:
(a journalist's book about the GENOCIDE that took place in Rwanda only a little over a decade ago)

"Take the best estimate: eight hundred thousand killed in a hundred

Comments

[kurosh]

why would it bother you? you never knew it happened. it doesn't affect you.

would you rather have not known about it?

[rarr_raptor]

that's just it, it doesn't affect me or you at all.

does that me we shouldn't care, shouldn't even have known about it?

the easy answer is yes, but i don't feel that way. at least i know.

[kurosh]

that's odd. that's not what you say about analagous subjects.

[rarr_raptor]

yes hun, but MASS GENOCIDE is a lot different from those subjects.

[kurosh]

the concept is the same.