Same opinion here. I do understand what happened to you in 2001 and if I had made big money due to the attack I would have probably done the same thing you did, however, It would have been as an act of giving to those who were affected by the tragedy rather than feeling I had cashed in somebody else's tragedy. Because the Dow was going to drop no matter what you did and if you didn't cashed-in the tragedy someone else did and they didn't really care. So who better to take that cash than you to give it back.
I do myself stop to think about the world very often and trust me, we do so many more things in our daily life that contributes so much to other people's disgrace, you would not believe it. How about all the imported clothes and electronics that are made overseas for cents and sold here for hundreds, where the employees make just a few dollars a day. How about abusive free trade agreements that destroy other countries economies and local businesses. Because you don't get cash out of it, but you can afford to buy new clothes every week or replace broken electronic instead of fixing them just because they get paid very little, so how is that not benefiting from someone else's disgrace? The difference is, we don't see it live on TV
This are just a couple of examples
We are all guilty of that when we promote them by buying those products and the worst is, there is no choice. So my thing is, cash-in on everything you can, despite what causes it but never forget to give back. Whatever way you choose to do that.
Just my imperfect-human-being kind of opinion
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