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Why We Hurt version 1 Oct. 15, 2002
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This is a document that will try to explain the possibilities answering the
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question "why", in relation to several terrorist actions of late, and poor
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relations with foreign countries. Namely, we are hurting because we as a
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nation suck, and we are too blind to see it. "Suck" is such a general word.
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The possible reasons that we are experiencing such outrageous acts of
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violence are as follows: Terrorists want to send a message that we are
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vulnerable to such attacks. Before recently, the average person in America
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had a feeling like nothing bad could happen to them. Walking in the open,
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leaving doors unlocked, and taking many risks were common. How weak we were
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in the mind, thinking that the police were some omnipotent force that would
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prevent anything happening to them. When Americans see the Third World
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horrors on TV, they say "That could never happen to me". Fools! It makes
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even me uneasy when I see how careless we are. And what were the
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consequences of this overkill carefree attitude? 9-11 attacks. Sniper
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shootings. Anthrax epidemic. Is it still worth it to ignore reality? What
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I'm talking about is the general feeling, the opinions of the average
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American, or at least the description of the American stereotype. If an
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Islamic terrorist over in Islam were to take our TV commercials as a sample
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of who we are as a nation (which isn't that far off), they would be
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disgusted. Nothing but sex, violence, and general sinning. Could a person of
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different culture and upbringing be disgusted enough to hijack a plane and
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crash it into the World Trade Center? Why not?
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The other possibility is that "they", as we love to call an unmasked terror,
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are jealous. Other hostile countries are just jealous of what we have, when
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they have nothing, or very little. And these opinions I'm talking about are
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those of the extremely wealthy in other countries. It really doesn't matter
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what the opinion of the general oppressed public is, because no terrorist
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attack was ever executed without the help of a financial backer.
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We have a problem. Are we to convince the entire public to change their
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whole way of life? Of course not. My father could barely get me to eat
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correctly at the table. But if our way of living went in harmany with
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"theirs", maybe we would have harmony. But we don't, because we are
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different. How are we different? We are superrich, they are very poor. We
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waste tons of food daily. They are starving. We barely vote anymore. They
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gladly die to make a small difference to change their country from what it
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is. We are totally dependent on "their" oil in order to carry out our
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beautiful ignorant and uneconomical way of life. They sell it because it is
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all they have to sell to survive. However, we do share some things in
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common. For one, both sides dislike their government. Well, they HATE their
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government, and with just cause. And if we knew about half the things our
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government had done over the years, we would be in outrage too. Also, the
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general public of both sides don't feel like they can control the
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government, that they are controlling us. When our Constitution was first
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made, it was supposed to serve the wants and needs of the people, not
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control and regulate against us.
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Hey, America is great. Personally, I'm having a blast ordering food I know
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I'm not going to finish, having sex with women left and right, and the high
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crime rate gives a great sense of danger in the air. But hey, we must be
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doing something wrong when we are getting bombed, poisoned, and sniped all
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over the place. Wake up people, there must be something wrong with us. And
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the reason that thing is not crystal clear to us is because we are ignorant.
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Our ignorance is finally making us pay. And when I see another terrorist
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incident on the news, always always always there are interviews of the
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general public who say this: "I'm going to look out for that now. I'm going
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to be less ignorrant". Yes, that is exactly what "the terrorists" want the
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outcome to be, and although the ends do not justify the means, the means
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were needed here.
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ENDER
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