I'm typically insensitive to large losses of life. Though I feel sadness at deaths in school shootings, they don't set me back to the point of being unable to function. But somehow, the news of deadly floods in Nepal are horrifying.
In retrospect, I'm beginning to feel the scope of the killings in Gaza. Israeli soldiers are responsible for these massacres, and they are terrible to contemplate. The psychic consequences for the adults are going to be vast. I'm not an expert in psychology, but I know that inflicting cruelty and horror is traumatic for the culprit as well.
I know that I'm conflating two types of disaster: natural, and human-inflicted. But they're horrors anyway, and we feel the pain.
K
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