You're right, they don't. If they did think like me, then we wouldn't have even had a murder last week at all. If we go enough weeks without murders, I'll remove them, but until then, yes, I feel we need a reminder since everyone else seems content to sweep away what happened with pretty memorials to soothe their consciences or whatever.

[ He adjusts his glasses momentarily. ]

I doubt any of us are so fragile as to commit suicide over this--we wouldn't be picked for here if we didn't have that determination to live enough that we'd sooner toss other people into the sacrificial pyre.