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A good piece of perspective on this -- it's what many civilians feel day in day out in places like Pakistan when killer drones are flying over.
by baursak 9y ago
A good piece of perspective on this -- it's what many civilians feel day in day out in places like Pakistan when killer drones are flying over.
- anotheryou 9y agoUntil it becomes the sad norm and you just get on with your life I guess.
- anotheryou 9y ago(Just for clarification, this doesn't make it any better or less traumatizing. It is probably much more traumatizing, people just have to cope with it, because you can't live in constant fear forever.)
- akkat 9y agoI have friend who in Jerusalem Israel during the second intifada. Terrorists were blowing themselves up on busses killing or maiming nearly everyone on the bus. Yet the locals continued to take busses because they needed to get to school or work and stopping normal life until after the terrorism stopped was out of the question. Not everyone can simply go on a vacation until everything fixes itself.
- stordoff 9y agoReminds me of a half-jokey comment I saw a few times after one of the more recent London attacks: Non-Londoners were desperately avoiding central London; Londoners were complaining the Tube was delayed.
- nbsd4lyfe 9y agoBelow the surface there's an abnormally high rate of PTSD and a small percentage of people who fail to function.
- ahmadss 9y agoLet's be honest - most people don't want to hear that the people living in drone target areas of Pakistan, Yemen, etc feel this way, else we'd be seeing many more stories about the psychological trauma faced by these folks.
- ahmadss 9y agoFound this 2012 article about a joint NYU / Stanford study regarding terror civilians face from drones. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-obama-drone-deaths https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-...