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[geldonyetich]

Totally monkeysphere, I agree.

Yet, paranoid wretch that I am, I bring it considerably closer to come by wondering how easily something like this could happen to me.   It's not like there's no earthquakes anywhere near where I live.

Scientists theorize that everybody on the entire planet was influenced by this event because it actually changed the rotation speed of the earth.    It may go so far as all the clocks in the world are now a little more inaccurate.

Ultimately, the Monkeysphere is an illusion.  We may not want to acknowledge a tragedy on the other side of the planet occurred, but there's a chance it will influence us personally in some way whether or not we like it.

See, posts like this are why nobody likes me.   Erm, have a nice day?

[sidereal]

People like Ted Kaczynski, Osama Bin Laden, the sons of Sadam Hussein, and the people who killed that woman and stole the baby from her womb, really changed my opinion about mankind in general.

What the hell does Osama bin Laden have to do with 200,000 innocent people?  Sure, maybe 100 of them were murderous psychopaths . . so feel free to rescind your compassion for them.  The other 199,900 don't deserve to be compared with fetus thieves just because you can't muster up any empathy for people who had to watch their homes, parents, husbands, wives, and children get wiped away forever.

Riddle me this:  Who has more in common with Osama bin Laden?  Someone who drowned through no fault of their own, or someone who doesn't give a fuck?

[Calantus]

I believe the point was the realisation that every being in humankind is not holy or extra-specially deserving of emotional invenstment in and of itself.

That John Donne quote was pretty eye-opening to me btw. Not in a "we are the world" kind of way, but rather that THAT is why man-made disasters sadden me, but natural ones do not. When random people die it means nothing to me as far as being saddened by it. Sure I'd stop it if it was within my power (and to be honest, not too much trouble), but I wouldn't be sad about it when it comes up in the news. The reason man-made tradgedies upset me is because they diminish humanity, which is something I must be emotionally invested in. It hits me when people demonstrate how bad we can be, the worse it is, the worse the hit to me (car crashes for instance are often an example of someone not taking due care because they cbf'd, and that is a relatively small hit). I think it's something that all sane people feel to differing degrees. Some people like me are invested in the overall "goodness" of the human species, while others are emotinally invested in every single person.

I don't see how that can be held against anybody. I know we all want everybody else to feel the same about things we are emotionally invested in, but you have to accept that some people just aren't.

Just trying to stop a flame war from erupting.

[MrHat]

EDIT: Post deleted by me.

[Hanzii]

I don't see how that can be held against anybody. I know we all want everybody else to feel the same about things we are emotionally invested in, but you have to accept that some people just aren't.

No, you don't actually have to accept that some people are coldhearted and callous.
But as long as they are faceless beings on the interweb, you don't have to  invest too much in trying to make them human beings. Just shake your head and move on.