Ten Things I Want My Children To Learn From 9/11 via Popehat.
The headings are good, but the explanations are better. Good to read or re-read on this day.
- Ordinary People Are Capable Of Extraordinary Things.
- Evil Exists.
- Good Exists.
- It’s Best To Define Yourself By Your Reaction To Events, Not By The Events Themselves.
- A Thing Is Not the Same As Our Reaction To A Thing.
- Beware of How People Use Great And Terrible Things And Events.
- Fear, Anger, and Apathy Are Perilous.
- Understanding Is Not The Same As Justifying.
- People Are Not Abstractions.“Each person who died on 9/11 represented an entire world ending.”
- There is Nothing New Under the Sun.
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