Vengeance is...

About the devestation in Southeast Asia:

It's human nature to want to blame someone. I am already seeing it happening already - why isn't there a weather system? Why didn't the government do anything? Why didn't God do anything? Why wasn't a warning given? It's the Americans' fault - they didn't warn us! (Yes, I saw this comment in one blog. Why not the Brits or the French, I wonder? Or the Singaporeans? Hah.)

[via Messy Christian]

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Faced with evidence of our essential punyness compared to the world we live in, so many still feel the need to try to reassert control. And so anytime anything goes wrong in our society, somebody has to get sued. Because we have a right to a trouble-free life, and if anything intrudes on that trouble-free life, it's because someone wasn't doing their job. But the truth of the matter is, there is still a tremendous amount about this world that are outside of anyone's control. There's a big burp on the ocean floor, and many thousands die, just like that.

[via Wheat and Chaff]