"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic"

Due to a request from my opponent, I will state how "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic" is: 1) True 2) Logical 3) Comparable 1) True: I have presented numerous examples to back up this up. The holocaust, 9/11, and even stabbings are simple proof that in a large event, people are remembered as part of the group, as part of the statistic. Someone who is killed in the first week of January is likely to have his/her name all over the newspaper, and their picture on the front page. A group of dead people, will only be remembered as 'they', 'them', etc. There is no other way to prove this than through examples, and because I have presented examples and my opponent has not, this is true. 2) Logical: Something that is logical is something that makes sense. It is usually something that has extensive proof to back it up. For example, saying gravity doesn't exist is illogical as there is extensive proof that gravity does indeed exist. So, logically, "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic" because A) It has the proof to back it up B) It cannot disproven to the same extent (i. e. CON does not have the same amount of proof to disprove the quote) 3) Comparable: I am unsure what my opponent means by 'comparable'. If anything, they can't be compared as I contend one is a statistic, whereas one is a tragedy. I will now rebut my opponent: 'What about the Vietnam Memorial? Every known name of fighting soldiers are remembered there. ' - What I mean is when they hold a service they won't sit down and read out every dead persons name, they will announce collectively who died as a number. They may be a part of that number, but they are still part of the statistic. 'So therefore according to that statement, a million deaths is not a tragedy as one death would be, but simply a number. On that note, the statement is completely untrue. ' - We are not arguing how tragic two events are as it varies between the events. What the debate is really about is how one death on it's own is seen as a huge tragedy, whereas when that person is absorbed into a report of people who have been murdered that year, they are absorbed into a statistic. ' Nameless statistic? No. Tragedies involving a massive amount of people aren't nameless. Lets once again take the holocaust for example. It's not known as " The event of six million killed Jews which has no name. " Its known as "the holocaust" ' - I contend that the person turn into a nameless statistic, not the event turns into a nameless statistic. 'Also, does giving the name of a single person that died as opposed to giving a single name to a large amount of people that died make either tragic event more or less properly honored? No! I don't have the dang memory bank to hold 6 million names of people, so I remember them by naming the tragedy. ' - This is just further proof you in fact believe that one person dying is a tragedy and 6 million people dying is a statistic. You have just argued against yourself. ' Besides, a single death isn't necessarily always a "tragedy". Individual people die on the news every day, and chances are neither of us is going to remember or even care. To compare that with mass deaths. Mass deaths are NEVER forgotten, almost like their a part of history. By history I don't mean any timespace nonsense, but just events that will be remembered and known by every average Joe. The only individual deaths that are remembered enough to compete on a scale with mass deaths is FAMOUS people. Even so, it's pretty hard to find someone who could say the death of an individual historical figure was more "tragic than 9/11, or the holocaust" ' - My opponent is trying to slip through this debate by arguing the tragedy levels, not how it is remembered. In memory, the people of 9/11 disintegrate into a statistic, and so do the people in the holocaust. Can you remember the name of one person who died in the holocaust other than Anne Frank? Can you name a single person who died in the Napoleonic wars? My opponent has not, in the form of in memory, proved how "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic" is: 1) True 2) Logical 3) Comparable