Well, as a pimp of emotions and a whore of every sort, I have to disagree, Quest. Nobody cares about YOUR bleeding heart, your recycled emotions that you don't really feel at all but overstate in an attempt to win the hearts of other bloody hearts to gain attention. You don't express any real compassion, because if you understood empathy and compassion then truly you would be able to translate it into other mediums and along other paths as well. And the reason I stated "nobody cares" (even though I'm certain someone cares) is to point out how completely inane your "you convince no one" arguments are. You obviously let yourself be convinced that you should feel something. Shield your emotions, they are easily controlled and accessed by anyone : the media, me, Red, and prettymuch any random force of propoganda. To sit and insult myself and Redfeather, after pretending you care about people who've died that you NEVER KNEW, is just plain hypocrisy. Me? Callous? Insensitive? Of course I am. I take no insult in that, at least I'm not hiding behind some shield of decency just to fit in with the rest of the hypocritical, teeming masses. Hell, more people die every day in my city than have in this incident. I certainly am NOT promoting useless death, innocent bystanders being used as tools for those damn terrorists OR for the huge transnats that fund them (including the country I live in, whose single largest export is WEAPONS). I don't want anyone to die violently and in massive pain and gore. And were they close enough for me to help, I would be out doing so. But for you to say that WE turned this into a political thread? That's poppycock. The entire thread is political, fronted under the guise of compassion. If this thread were truly about compassion and understanding, then it would be universal, and also pertain to those of us with differing opinions. IF you were truly a compassionate individual, why can't you find any compassion for people you DO know and have known for years? But, Quest, like I previously stated : hate heals. Keep up the good work. But one thing you really need to work on is your insults. They aren't even up to chatroom levels yet. I suggest Seattle : 2 on Yahoo, the center of text-based pain in this Universe. Practice makes perfect.