The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

Shawn Conn — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:54:13 +0000

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

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Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik! (The war? I can not find it so terrible! The death of a man: this is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: this is a statistic!)

The Denial of Death

Shawn Conn — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:04:24 +0000

The Denial of Death

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...The lower animals, of course, spared this painful contradiction, as they lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being...The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it.