Does this make me a horrible person?
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'ReservoirAngel said:
While it's probably not the most politically correct way of responding, I can see where you're coming from. Because of the way that social media has pervaded our lives, it has now become "trendy" to constantly talk about whatever disaster/relief effort/latest destruction has occurred.
This "danger trending" occurred during the Iran Elections, the Haiti Relief Efforts, the BP Oil Spill, The Chilean Miners and now is trending around the Japan Earthquake.
It's probably best, if it annoys you, to just keep calm, keep quiet, express sympathies if asked, and change the subject. Otherwise you're going to get an earful.
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TBH, there was a time when I would have called you a f***er.. but now I believe its your own personal right to not care, all of us at some point don't care about someones pain, suffering etc... hell some of us revel in another's fall when it suits us.. but thats off point..
Now obviously if you're asking people to shut up about it, yes its a bit rude but true I also do get annoyed when everyone talks about the current suffering of some peeps that live far away in a zone thats known to have these kind of natural disasters..
Conclusion: You're pushing controversy with the majority of people but I don't think it makes you horrible..
TBH, there was a time when I would have called you a f***er.. but now I believe its your own personal right to not care, all of us at some point don't care about someones pain, suffering etc... hell some of us revel in another's fall when it suits us.. but thats off point..
Now obviously if you're asking people to shut up about it, yes its a bit rude but true I also do get annoyed when everyone talks about the current suffering of some peeps that live far away in a zone thats known to have these kind of natural disasters..
Conclusion: You're pushing controversy with the majority of people but I don't think it makes you horrible..
Sounds like you are just being honest, which is more than most people can say. From my experience, people only seem to care about something so that they can look good. I am not saying everyone is like this, just a lot of them.
/threadJingai09 said:
I wish our society wasn't so bent on proving the world is ending and all that sensationalism. Stop watching the news. Their ratings are what they care about. I have not watched anything news related other than Daily Show and Colbert report... and only cause they are reasonable and make fun of all the news networks.
OT: Don't over-react and yell and tell 'em to shut up. You will always look like a jerk that way. And anyone calling anyone else "Hitler" is a fucking idiot anyway. Just knowing and understanding the crisis is good enough. If you care, donate. That is all we can do.
Valkyrie101 said:
You may be interested to know that twice that many (22,000) children under the age of five die every day. And they're dying of diarrhoea and malaria and these things can be foreseen and prevented. No one seems to care about them.
Well people being stupid isn't something I can account for, lol. But yeah I don't think it makes you a bad person still. I mean, like you said it bums you out and there's little you can actually do, so why would you really want to hear about it all the time?ReservoirAngel said:
I guess I'm guilty of that, though, the bringing things up too much thing. I seem to have my mom's ability of bringing up the most morbid thing possible in a time where it's the most inappropriate,lol. I remember my dad talking about going out with my mom and everyone would be laughing, and then she'd say something like "did you hear about those dead puppies?" or something
. So I guess I'm pretty bad at it myself, lol.
I don't think it's terrible to not care very much, but it might be assholish to make a fuss about it. You don't necessarily know who really cares; maybe someone who seems to be going on and on about it actually knows people who were hurt or who died. You could hurt someone's feelings pretty badly, just because you're a bit annoyed. It's like if a coworker's family member dies -- I wouldn't personally be upset (especially if I didn't know the family member) but neither would I say "omg, it's been a week, Steve! I'm freaking over your mom, dude!"
No, not really. Without context, just randomly saying that you are sick of hearing about Japan could seem pretty insensitive. But when everyone keeps going on and on about it on these forums and in real life, it can get rather annoying. It would be one thing if it was something that personally affected you - say a kid kills himself and your friend knows him, and you ***** out your friend for the same reason. THAT would make you an asshole. Or, if you actually lived in the country in question, saying something like that might make you an asshole.
But if it doesn't affect you, you shouldn't pretend like you care if you don't.
But if it doesn't affect you, you shouldn't pretend like you care if you don't.
Perfectly reasonable. The media over-covers these things, and then you have to hear about it from everyone else too, gets on my nerves as well.ReservoirAngel said:
I haven't gotten annoyed to the point of real anger about the hamminess over the Japan earthquake (or disasters in general), but I do think some people are just faking it to not feel bad.
The thing is, I really, honestly am not saddened by what has happened, and in a way, "don't care". People die every minute of every day, and no one expects you to care if that person doesn't involve you in some personal or emotional way; the only difference with this earthquake is that a sizable bunch of people died at once.
The thing is, I really, honestly am not saddened by what has happened, and in a way, "don't care". People die every minute of every day, and no one expects you to care if that person doesn't involve you in some personal or emotional way; the only difference with this earthquake is that a sizable bunch of people died at once.