
Originally Posted by
Ran Kizama
The same people who see humor in the "LOL j00 got AIDS!" jokes and such. It's just that 9/11 is a specific event, so people take it more personally. Yet, when something is as widespread and common as AIDS, it makes it easier to make jokes.
If you enjoy jokes about rape, AIDS, cruelty to animals, child abuse, infanticide/cannibalism, the holocaust, then why is 9/11 different for you? 2.8 million people died of AIDS last year. That’s 933 September 11 attacks for the year, or about 2.6 September 11th attacks each day. 45,000 people die in car crashes each year in the USA alone. There’re also about 3 million reported cases of child abuse each year. More than 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
On a similar note, the 9/11 memorial is slated to cost approximately $500 million US dollars. Who’s really benefiting? The families, the American People, or the big building contractors and their stockholders? Who benefits most from a $1.2 Trillion defense budget: Joe Citizen, or Aerospace & Defense contractors and their shareholders?
I'm not Anti-9/11 in the least. This is just something to think about.