Kawapasaka wrote:umeu wrote:Funny how a building gets a thread, but nobody seems to bat an eyelash anymore when a few dozen people are murdered or if hundreds of people die in planecrashes or typhoons. If it was a terror attack, then they seem to have struck a chord! Even lejend and dolan are mortarfied.
Are you really surprised? There are hundreds of thousands of murders every year, how often is such an iconic monument destroyed (or heavily damaged)?
were not talking about isolated murders, are we? Iconic monuments do get damaged all the time. The spire that burned down, for example, isn't even the original spire. A host of world heritage sites got destroyed in the past 2 decades in Iraq and Syria. In france, half of their medieval castles are falling into irreversible disrepair. I'm not surprised that this fire saddens people, it saddens me too, but if this is a national tragedy, then it erodes the meaning of the word, in my opinion.
but in any case, the point about weariness is indeed valid, I think, and it seems that as people have become callous to murders, as there are so many of them, people now too seem to become callous to terror events against people, as there have been many of them recently. So, again, IF this was a terror attack, which it seems like it wasn't based on what the French government is telling its people and the world, then it is a successful change in strategy. Even if Muslims didn't set this building ablaze, people posting things like what bramboy posted will nonetheless use it to sow, maintain and perpetuate division, and thus only playing right into terrorist aims, had it been a terrorist attack.