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Its funny because the morning of the announcement (On Sunday) PBS here was running a special on forgiveness and focused on three stories, particularly the Amish reaction to the school shooting and the Rwanda tragedy. It was amazing because, especially in the case of the Amish, they had a former Amish minister, now just a menonite saying at one moment he was proud that they stuck to their conviction of forgiveness, but on the other hand its kinda cruel to force people to disallow a person's ability to have an emotional reaction to this.
The reality is I don't judge people by their initial reaction just by the example ASTAlumna wrote. I don't know how I would react with the initial news somebody that killed my loved one was killed or captured, and we don't know if the reaction in America would be the same had he been captured instead of killed. My issue is with people trying to force their beliefs on others, to prevent people from letting their emotions flow. We all know initial emotions do not equal are rational thoughts on the situation. I guarantee a week from now, most of the folks celebrating will be moving on with their lives the same way it was before Bin Laden was eliminated.
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