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Old 07-26-2005, 06:57 PM
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Not really. If you don't know much about someone, there's no reason you should feel more than the standard sympathy for a fellow human being's death. Take Princess Diana, for example. So many people were devastated when she died, but she was only a name to me. The same week, however, Mother Theresa died, and that meant a lot to me.

We don't have time to care about everyone whose name we know. That's nothing to be ashamed of. Now cheering when someone dies -- THAT'S something to be ashamed of. We saw a lot of that with the Pope a while ago. But not "feeling bad enough" is perfectly normal.
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