People have had to deal with disasters in their personal lives. The loss of a job, a serious illness or unexpected death can be devastating. There are some support systems but only to a certain extent. None of this is new and the one thing we know is that people will cope the best they can.
It does seem to me that somehow, we have many people who can't deal with even minor setbacks, at least in the scheme of things. I was looking at pictures from Ukraine, a pretty modern country where the invaders apparently somewhat randomly shot people in Bucha. These were men and women who had normal lives. The pictures are gruesome in and of themselves but the ones where I guess relatives or neighbors were trying to identify the dead struck me the most.
Sometimes after a terrible accident or natural disaster we see similar images, but this seems totally random and particularly callous. It made me wonder how we would react to similar carnage in this country. Based on the current level of rhetoric, I don't think it is so impossible.
It's time to stop repeating or believing hate. Americans who disagree with you on an issue are just as American as you are. I don't personally support people having abortions, but I don't consider them murderers. I'm not sure how we can dictate to one person that they lose control of their own body ever.
Still those who have an opposing view are not evil. We just disagree.
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