The bombing of Cork

[Ayem]

Does it matter how many people were killed? Seriously?

Let us say the Corsairs killed one thousand people. What's that? A naval engagement?

Thirty thousand, the size of a small town I lived in.

One million?

Ten million?

At what point do you reach "a million deaths is a statistic"?

Remember that a burning world is a symbol. People lost families in that conflagration, and they damn well want some payback.

Does it really matter if billions did not die?

What would you want to do to a nation that just bombed your street, killing three of your family members, your neighbour, your neighbour's dog, the family on the other side of your neighbour whose daughter you'd been seeing for a month, the people across the road who invited you to barbecues and knew your father (now deceased) from work in a factory.

So to say, "oh the Corsairs bombed the only planet we had, never mind, at least they only killed a few hundred thousand of us," seems a mite callous.

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