"when a person dies, it is a tragedy; when a thousand perish, it is a statistic."

lest we forget.


if everyone out there is given a chance at life, does anyone ever deserve to die? do the people trapped in that building 5 years ago deserve to die? societies have limited memories of limited names - we remember significant names, but rarely the significance of names, relegated to the relams of mere statistics when processed in bulk.

the people trapped in the building were placed on a pedestal and martyred in the name of a state's vengence, which necessitated in all irony, killing many more people. an eye for an eye, and sooner or later, the whole damn world's gonna turn blind. does that make sense?

the biggest and baddest motherfuckers on this earth may "deserve" to die, but no one, however insignificant a life he led, deserves to have his name forgotten upon death.