In your opinion, Worst Tragedy this Millenium?

[QUOTE="Joshywaa"]

[QUOTE="Blaze787"]

I deleted my post. You're right, and I also don't want to start a fight with people who root for the other team. Not right now anyway.

Blaze787

"root for the other team"

What :|

The Other Team: People who defend or support the ideology of the folks who carried out the 9/11 attacks. I think I'll just leave it at that.

Who does that? The only person I can think of is perhaps Harisemo, and I'm not sure if he actually believes what he says.

[QUOTE="Joshywaa"]

[QUOTE="Blaze787"]

September 11th wasn't a tragedy. A tragedy implies that it was some kind of horrible mistake. It was a deliberate act of violence and hate against the United States committed by a group of people who cling to an outdated, repressive, dark age ideology.

th3warr1or

Yes, it was a tragedy.

tragic [traj-ik] adjective

• characteristic or suggestive of tragedy
• of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy

Or were you using "tragedy" in the classic literature usage? In which case, you're right - 9/11 was not an ancient Greek play in which the protagonist (likely a man of importance) succumbs to disaster through a combination of personal failings and external circumstances beyond his control.

tragic [traj-ik] adjective

• characteristic or suggestive of tragedy
• of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy

Or were you using "tragedy" in the classic literature usage? In which case, you're right - 9/11 was not an ancient Greek play in which the protagonist (likely a man of importance) succumbs to disaster through a combination of personal failings and external circumstances beyond his control.

Oleg_Huzwog

[QUOTE="Joshywaa"]

[QUOTE="Blaze787"]

September 11th wasn't a tragedy. A tragedy implies that it was some kind of horrible mistake. It was a deliberate act of violence and hate against the United States committed by a group of people who cling to an outdated, repressive, dark age ideology.

th3warr1or

Yes, it was a tragedy.

Interesting

[QUOTE="Oleg_Huzwog"]

tragic [traj-ik] adjective

• characteristic or suggestive of tragedy
• of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy

Or were you using "tragedy" in the classic literature usage? In which case, you're right - 9/11 was not an ancient Greek play in which the protagonist (likely a man of importance) succumbs to disaster through a combination of personal failings and external circumstances beyond his control.

JustPlainLucas

No, but I love speaking semantically. BIG difference.

[QUOTE="th3warr1or"][QUOTE="Joshywaa"]

Yes, it was a tragedy.

Joshywaa

Interesting

They're 2 very obviously different things >_>...

All of them are terrible, it is incredibly SELFISH FOR ANYBODY to chose one.... people died with these events.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Ok now I know your talking out of yoru ass.. Why don't you tell that to the Haiti populace that are still living in shanty towns due to the earth quake, with a large scale Cholera outbreak claiming more lives.. The Tsunami wiped otu ENTIRE VILLAGES of people to which we have no idea now if they ever existed.. both claimed well over 100k lives indirectly and directly.. To some how suggest that 9/11 was a greater diseaster even though entire countries have never recovered from the other diseasters is ridiculous if I have ever seen one..

JustPlainLucas

:| Really I mean really? These were fare more then just property damage and lives lost.. It chagned the way of life for millions of people.. Oh please don't tell me.. The increase of security of airport, the whatifs of the Patriot Act, and other such things are more game changing thant he people who lost everything they owned and currently live in shanty towns.. Or where entire genetic pools of people were literally wiped off the face of the planet.. 9/11 did not cause this.. At the end of the day we were able to go home, we were able to watch tv, we were able to do just about everything we could do like the day before.. Not so much for the people who died and the survivors of those two diseasters.. IN fact they are sitl affected radically too this day in trying to rebuild their lives, their communities, goernments etc etc.

All of them are terrible, it is incredibly SELFISH FOR ANYBODY to chose one.... people died with these events.

fueled-system

So many options.

I couldn't choose just one... they are all equally tragic. :'(

:| Really I mean really? These were fare more then just property damage and lives lost.. It chagned the way of life for millions of people.. Oh please don't tell me.. The increase of security of airport, the whatifs of the Patriot Act, and other such things are more game changing thant he people who lost everything they owned and currently live in shanty towns.. Or where entire genetic pools of people were literally wiped off the face of the planet.. 9/11 did not cause this.. At the end of the day we were able to go home, we were able to watch tv, we were able to do just about everything we could do like the day before.. Not so much for the people who died and the survivors of those two diseasters.. IN fact they are sitl affected radically too this day in trying to rebuild their lives, their communities, goernments etc etc.

sSubZerOo

You should rename the thread worst disaster of last decade.metalguitar13

Worst tragedy of the past decade?

Hmm..... I guess Europe, just as a whole.

That place is just depressingly pathetic....

this decade? 2010-2020? when was the patriot act renewed? meh does not matter, im going with the media(mainstream media), they have been no better than the 700 club this decade

i guess i have to go by number killed and say 2004, then again if you total up all the dudes killed by the usa blindly flailing about after 9/11 that number is probably way higher than the 250,000 killed by the 2004 tsunami.

then again i'm glad those people are dead so is it even a tragedy?

and i probably wouldn't have liked most of the people killed in 2004 either so was that a tragedy either?

and when the world is so overpopulated is it ever a tragedy if hundreds of thousands of people are snuffed out?

after all there are more resources available for you and your offspring personally if tons of people die so are we just big hypocrites crying meaningless crocodile tears about the sanctity of human life because we are too stupid and sentimental to realize how much better off we were without them?

i mean sure on a personal level i'm sorry for peoples losses and it's all heartwrenching and blah blah blah but in the big picture aren't we better off overall?

hmmmmm.

Simpsons.

And yeah, don't forget it's 2011 and not 2010, we're in a new decade. ;)

And yeah, don't forget it's 2011 and not 2010, we're in a new decade. ;)

parkurtommo

The holocaust and any sort of genoicde committed on another people.

The holocaust and any sort of genoicde committed on another people.

SaudiFury

[QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

And yeah, don't forget it's 2011 and not 2010, we're in a new decade. ;)

cee1gee

[QUOTE="cee1gee"][QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

And yeah, don't forget it's 2011 and not 2010, we're in a new decade. ;)

parkurtommo

title says in the "worst tragedy this millenium"

and seeing how 9/11 is on the list, i'm lead to believe not just natural disasters but also crimes against humanity.

In that case the worst ones that come to mind are ones perpetrated by man itself.

There is something very sad and tragic when the massive disaster is wraught not by nature itself but by man's own hand.

lol wut millenium?

The death of the wild west.

I really can't decide, so many tragedies in the past 11 years. I may have to pick 9/11 since that act continues to escalate even now as troops are occupying the Middle East

I think it's September 11th

I really can't decide, so many tragedies in the past 11 years. I may have to pick 9/11 since that act continues to escalate even now as troops are occupying the Middle East

BPoole96

dunno.Bush surely OBAMA maybe Tea party obviously The irrationality of media and Murdoch empire That is for sure

I went with 9/11. I know that sounds biased as ethnocentric and American Bias, but I'll explain. While the Indonesian tsunami killed more people and was more devasting as a single event, 9/11 changed the world and the future for what will probably be decades to come if forever. The implications were higher in 9/11. After the Tsunami, there was aid and reconstruction. After 9/11 ther was that, but now we have other things that echo continuously forward. We have the War on Terror that will probably never end as the more terrorists you kill, the more will be angered and take their place. Also, you have the caution in every country on the lookout for terrorists which is part of the War on Terror but is also an after effect. In addition, here in the U.S. we have the bullsh** Patriot Act that is the beginning of the end of our freedoms. Now all they have to say is that everything is for our "protection" and "security" and for "national security" more now than ever. The world political and fear landscape has changed. This is why to me, is a larger tragedy.

9/11 or any big tsunami and earthquakes

IMO, America and the West invading Iraq and Afghanistan...

The Carter IV

They're all tragic. Can't really say which is the worst, but I guess the 2004 tsunami did the most damage...