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Tuesday, February 1, 2005
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"The death of one is a tragedy, but the death of a million is just a statistic." - Stalin.
We live our lives as one entity. We're forever bound to only feel our feelings. But, we can feel other's, too, but feeling other's feelings is only a guesswork. Feelings can be expressed, and the expression of feelings allows for us to communicate our feelings to others, so they get a better understanding of how we feel, but we're still grounded by our feelings and what we feel - not what others feel.
Millions and millions of people died during the Holocaust. Being one person, we cannot begin to understand the agony the Jews and all others killed during this event felt. We only have the vaguest idea. Therefore, these millions of people who died are just a large number to us.
But if we were to document, or follow, one person's experience at a concentration camp at the Holocaust, we'd get a much greater understanding of how these millions of people died. This person's death would seem tragic and we'd get a general understanding of what it was like there.
Throughout mankind's existence, the death of one has seemed much more apparent and striking than the deaths of millions. Jesus is a great example. His death, many would consider, "was a tragedy." And while it certainly was tragic in a sense, compare his death to that of the millions of Jews. Those millions' deaths were far more tragic and should be remembered far more, but over all, Jesus's death may seem more tragic, and seems to have more purpose to it, and seems to mean more than that of millions.
All the time, we hear of kids being murderered, of other's misluck and death at the hand of drunk drivers, and so on, and these deaths often seem tragic. And then, every day on the front page of the newspaper, we're told fifteen people died in Iraq, or five, or twenty; whatever the number, it has less significance to us because the more people dead, the less we can comprehend all the pain and suffering that went along with it. The less we can understand just how many are dead. In comparison, a little kid riding a bike late at night, and being snatched up by a criminal and killed seems more tragic.
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