9/11 - Seven years on

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by chumpychops

Does your 'respect and decency' extend to acknowledging that others may have opinions that are different to your own, while being just as honestly held?

Is it a characteristic of 'respect and decency' to describe said opinions as 'codswollop'?

There is a ways to get your opinion across and saying Whats the big ****ing deal?" Isn't the way.

[Dee]

Originally Posted by petemc

I honestly don't know how he could stop and detach himself from the moment long enough to be a photographer. To look up and think "There!" So much respect for that guy.

Jesus. Me too.

Believe it or not, when I was first hearing snippets of news, someone said the towers had collapsed, I for some reason got into my head that the stock market had collapsed. What made me think that, I have no idea, my mind was a blur that day.

[Will]

Chumpy - to be fair you're being excessively obtrusive and abraisive in your posting. you are of course entitled to your opinions, but please present them in a more courteous manner.

[Garp]

Originally Posted by chumpychops

Does your 'respect and decency' extend to acknowledging that others may have opinions that are different to your own, while being just as honestly held?

Is it a characteristic of 'respect and decency' to describe said opinions as 'codswollop'?

People having an opinion and expressing it is fine. HOW you express it is the important difference. If you're not able to express your opinion inoffensively which is something you're displaying over and over again, don't post it.

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by petemc

Personally I don't care what colour they are. It could have been the blue man group's big convention and I'd still have been horrified by what I saw live on tv.

Isn't there only 3 of them? sorry back on topic.

The photo that made the most impact for me was the falling man.

[Pheebs]

I respect peoples opinions, yes. Those who portray them in a sensible manner, that is. Noticed how I don't have a problem with other people who don't seem to have such a big feeling over 9/11? Maybe because they can express their feelings without in a non insulting manner and using language which isn't so derogatory.

Dee asked a simple question in her OP. Where were you during 9/11. You've so far managed to ignore the question, be insulting and derail the thread a couple of times despite beings told to keep it on the lines.

Therefore my respect for your opinion is currently in reverse.

Apologies Dee for go OT here. Felt he deserved a response.

[Garp]

Originally Posted by petemc

I honestly don't know how he could stop and detach himself from the moment long enough to be a photographer. To look up and think "There!" So much respect for that guy.

In some regards I look at the work of photographers at major events and keep thinking.. you're there, you're present, but you're not really living it. I find I want them to put the cameras down and experience the moment.
But then without that sacrifice, without that hiding behind the camera lens and photographing, we'd miss so much. Pictures and photos are such a major trigger of memories, we'd all be a lot poorer off if it wasn't for the sacrifice of the few.

[petemc]

Originally Posted by leowyatt

Isn't there only 3 of them?

Yer but who knows what might go on at a convention

Anyway back on topic, the photo that made the most impact for me was the falling man.

Yer that was pretty harrowing. They were normally people who chose to jump to their deaths rather than burn alive. People no different from us.

[chumpychops]

OK, ok, im sorry.

I would like to express my distaste that commemorations of 9/11 only highlight the apparent ignorance of many people towards the far greater disasters that have occurred both before, and since the WTC attacks.

Peoplae are, of course, welcome to commemorate the attacks, but if they do so without also acknowledging these other events then, in my humble opinion they are at best ignorant, or at worse guilty of the kind of developed world myopia that will only make such attacks more prevalent in the future.

Better? I didnt even swear.

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by petemc

Yer that was pretty harrowing. They were normally people who chose to jump to their deaths rather than burn alive. People no different from us.

It says something when people choose to plummet to their deaths I suppose that would be better than being burnt alive as it would be quick and relatively painless. Sorry for the graphic comment people.