9/11 and the Good People of the World

I suppose a great percentage of the articles being put on the blogs, at least in this country, make some reference to the 9/11 attack in 2001.  There many different angles to analyzing this tragedy.   One is to examine how people can be so convinced of their own goodness and virtue that they can inflict untold suffering on others without any since of guilt or remorse for them. "The good people of the world", as I like to refer to them, are actually the most evil and dangerous because their own personal sense of self-righteous piety about themselves and the ideologies that prop them up rob them of the important virtues of self-examination and self-criticism.  To these people, the words "compromise" and "tolerance" are profanities, because employing them just might give them a more compassionate and empathetic perspective on others over whom they are so desperate to feel superior.

When I see TV shows replaying the 9/11 events that focus on the terrorists, they are typified by a smug arrogance that they are the "good people"...and as such any other (inferior) people don't matter, even to the extent that their very lives don't matter.  But the 9/11 terrorists are just one chilling example of "good people of the world" running rampant on everyone else. More on these "good people of the world" later...