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Originally Posted by Nico
There aren't enough words to describe how senseless, sad, and pathetic this incident is. What makes it worse is, as someone posted, nothing in that store (or any store for that matter) is worth an innocent person losing their life. It just shows you what has taken over the world: greed, materialism, inhumanity, and absolute carelessness.
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But, nico, monstrosity has not completely taken over the world, as evidenced by the fact that people -- like us ledgies -- are outraged & horrified. It may have a foothold, but so long as even a few are horrified by the horrific & saddened by the pathetic & angered by the foolish & the absurd, all is not lost. Consider Blanche Dubois' wonderful lines in "A Streetcar Named Desire" when speaks to her sister in Scene 4: "We are a long way from being made in God's image. But there's been
some progress since then ... Don't--don't hang back with the brutes!"