BROJEVI I LJUDI (Sasvim lični ugao) NUMBERS AND PEOPLE (A Personal View)

Statistika je nemilosrdna. Za nju ne postoji crno i belo. Ne postoji dobro i loše. Postoje samo brojke. Broj nema ime, nema lice, nema osećanja. Ipak, dokazano je da brojevi imaju neku vrednost. Onu koja im se pripiše. Zato svi vole brojeve. Iskazana jezikom brojki, ljudska nesreća najviše je nalik završnom računu kakve poslovne firme. Statistika kaže: Jedna je zemlja potpuno uništena, do temelja spaljena, psihički, fizički i materijalno degradirana Dva su naroda, dve vere, dve civilizacije oterane na dve suprotne strane Prilikom bombardovanja u kojem se "vodilo računa" da ne dodje do civilnih žrtava, više je od 2.000 mrtvih i 6.000 ranjenih civila Preko 1.000.000 je očajnika, svih nacionalnosti, izbeglih iz svojih domova Nešto manje od 11.000.000 ljudi je ostavljeno bez mogućnosti da sami osmišljavaju sopstvenu budućnost. Jedanaest miliona potencijalnih izbeglica Materijalni gubitak u regionu je, po optimističkim procenama oko 200.000.000.000 dolara. Američkih Nigde ne piše koliko je suza skriveno u ovim brojevima. Ljudsku patnju nije moguće pretočiti u cifre. U svetu pragmatizma, svi smo samo brojevi. U zatvoru, takođe. Pre nego što uplovimo u svet statistike, razmislimo o ljudima koji su sakriveni u brojeve. Da i sami ne bismo postali broj. Saša Živić (NNŠ)

Statistics is merciless. It does not know black or white. There is no good or bad. There are only numbers. A number does not have a name, does not have a face, does not have feelings. And yet it has been proved that numbers have a certain value. One that is assigned to them. That is why everybody loves numbers. Translated into the language of numbers human poverty looks mostly like an annual account report of a business company. Statistics says: One country has been completely destroyed, burned to the ground, mentally, physically ant materially degraded. Two peoples, two faiths, two civilizations have been driven in two opposite directions. During the bombing, which took care not to create civilian victims, 2000 civilians were killed and 6000 wounded. Over 1,000,000 desperate people, of all nationalities, have fled their homes. Slightly less than 11,000,000 people have been left without a chance to create their own future themselves. Eleven million of potential refugees. Material damage in the region rises to, according to optimistic evaluation, about 200,000,000,000 dollars. American. We can not see anywhere how many tears are hidden in these numbers. Human suffering can not be transformed into digits. In this pragmatic world of statistics we better think about people hidden in those numbers. Before we turn into numbers ourselves. Saša Živić (NNŠ)

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