I don't need to see it for me to feel compassion for a horrible event. Seems pretty shallow, really.
I don't need to see it for me to feel compassion for a horrible event. Seems pretty shallow, really.
Still harder to watch than to hear about it.
I'm not disputing that.Originally Posted by thebagman
Sorry, Mutatis-Mutandi, I misread your comment.
It's all good.
someone may have already stated this, but when a group of individuals gather to make a decision, oftentimes the level of intellect is lessened due to "group think." group think occurs when the more intelligent, the free thinkers hesitate to state their opinion because they fear being ostracized and the less intelligent loud mouths tend to govern the actions of the group. this happens all the time and has ben aid to many catastrophes throughout history.
"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n"
If I walk in the shoes of other people, I usuallly get smelly feet.
Never talk down to a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Then you have a one-mile head start, and he has no shoes.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Both jokes have their serious points, I think, Calidore. lol
Hardly. If anything an overly somber approach to natural disasters is evidence of someone who is under developed emotionally, I think. Three hundred years ago people could care less about this stuff - not because they were cold hearted but because they knew that hurricanes or what have you were just part of the natural state of things. It was no ones fault. It might be viewed as a shame but there's no sense getting distraught about it.
We moderns have trouble with this concept. We have trouble accepting that the world isn't all about us and that history doesn't unfold like a Snow White film. It's childish to be perfectly honest.
Last edited by prickly_pete; 07-12-2011 at 06:49 AM.
Nature is a biatch make no mistake.
How easy is it for one person to spread lies (or half truths) about another person and ruin their credibility? There was someone at school, he was a big guy (not fat) and he was alright but he was socially shunned by almost everybody through most of our years. Most people didn't even know him (I didn't) but every now and then some little kid would taunt him and the rest of the school would join in. Why?
Last edited by thebagman; 07-12-2011 at 09:21 PM.
Because the young are juvenile.
High school?
Childish? How is having compassion in the face of death in any way analogous to a Snow White film? If one faced something that caused mass death with incredulity, then it would be like a Disney film, since it wouldn't even seem possible.
Feeling compassion and being distraught are two different things. When I hear people have died in a terrorist attack or natural disaster, I don't need to see it for it to strike an emotional chord with me, even if that chord is as little as a thought of, "How sad," or, "What a shame." I don't shed tears, but I rarely think, "Oh well, **** happens, no big deal," unless I'm in a sardonic mood.
And, I don't really see how having compassion for people one doesn't even know is somehow thinking the world is all about is.
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