I was thinking along those lines too. In their future careers, they will experience personal loss, or we will experience other big events in the news, but still be expected to carry on and do our jobs.
And as future lawyers, they are learning that sometimes grand dury or jury decisions don’t come out the way you expect.
the point being, you can’t, in the professional world, just shut down your professional life because something happens in the world which you didn’t want to see happen, think is unjust, think is unfair, whatever the case. Coddling their students is a very poor preparation for what they will face in the real world.
Reminds me of a co-worker who, after 9/11, stayed home from work for 2 days because she was upset. (I live in NYC.)
Me? On 9/12, I got up, got dressed, & left for work. Sure there were delays on the public transport & people were glum, but we knew we had to do what we had to do.
This co-worker was never popular, anyway, as she always came across as whiney & entitled. Ironically,she always looked down on her co-workers, whom she considered unprofessional.