I agree with you and I know you mentioned you didn't want to minimize the effects this will have on people's lives. I just wanted to reiterate and expand on that a little since there tends to be a general attitude of thinking people are over reacting when these things happen because some people can't really empathize with the other side. Although I do think bringing the shit out into the open will help in the long term I feel like it's important to point out it's still shit which I forgot to do in my first post. Otherwise that part of the message kind of gets lost.
Yeah, totally true. As I mentioned to blackbootz (also in this thread), it's a case of facing the inevitable. Those bad things will happen to some degree or another. All we have control over is what our response is going to be.