I live in a town downstream from a major dam in northern california. while it is remote, there is a chance it may somehow break in my lifetime. Will you feel bad for my family if it does?
There is a huge fault line through the Wasatch front, yet people insist on living there. Will you feel bad for them if it ever goes?
Don't get me wrong, I would never live in New Orleans for more reasons than one, and I'm sure that the population of the town will likely shrink to half its size. But to say you don't feel sorry for them because the levee broke is not right. Sure they should have left town, and that would have certainly saved some lives. But that wouldn't save their house and possessions from being totally ruined.
Perhaps try just a shred of compassion for those people that lost it all.
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