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Has it gotten to be impossible for anyone else to be outraged by anything anymore?

PingSpike

PingSpike

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In a festival of parody threads a day or two ago there was a story about an unconfirmed number of retarded kids who were locked cages (of unconfirmed size) at night.

My reaction to the story should have been "My god, thats horrible."

My actual reaction was, "Meh. That doesn't sound that bad. I'm sure those kids are fine."

With the amount of god awful things I read about, its kind of sad that I've gotten to the point where I view offenses like the one in the story above as minor. Part of me thought the media probably blew it out of proportion, as always. Part of me thought there was obviously a missing component to the story. But the whole of me thought that there's plenty of worse things that happen on a regular basis, and this one didn't really bother me much at all in the grand scheme of things. Women and children getting raped in the wake of the hurricane, tons of people getting blown up in iraq...kids getting their arms chopped off for no reason in africa...and then some kids slept in cages. Hey, I'm not saying I want to sleep in a cage, but I'd rather sleep in a cage then be dead or have my arm chopped off or something.
 
the general consensus nowadays is sort of...

"if it doesn't affect me, i don't give a sh1t"

that, and 99% of the world's problems are portrayed my the media as happening elsewhere. we're safe here - nothing ever goes wrong in our neck of the woods. everywhere else is fscking chaos. right?
 
Horrible things are happening to someone at every moment of every day. If you were significantly hurt/saddened/etc by each one of them, you'd never get a thing accomplished. You'd live a life of insanity constantly depressed that someone else just did something terrible to another stranger that you've never met.

Life isn't fair. Some people suffer. To maintain a healthy life we MUST not let them affect us deeply. It is a basic survival instinct. Be glad you have it.
 
Media saturation. You hear of every single event that is 'horrific', and some de-sensitivity is to be expected after constant bombardment. I'm not agreeing this is a good thing by any stretch, but if you were emotionally wrenched by every single one, you'd have to end yourself now.
 
Shoot, I keep running into people who spend their lives deliberately looking for something - anything - to get outraged or offended about.
 
Originally posted by: phantom309
Shoot, I keep running into people who spend their lives deliberately looking for something - anything - to get outraged or offended about.
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Good point. Some one has to stop caring all together to bring balance to the force.
 
Originally posted by: PingSpike
In a festival of parody threads a day or two ago there was a story about an unconfirmed number of retarded kids who were locked cages (of unconfirmed size) at night.

My reaction to the story should have been "My god, thats horrible."

My actual reaction was, "Meh. That doesn't sound that bad. I'm sure those kids are fine."

With the amount of god awful things I read about, its kind of sad that I've gotten to the point where I view offenses like the one in the story above as minor. Part of me thought the media probably blew it out of proportion, as always. Part of me thought there was obviously a missing component to the story. But the whole of me thought that there's plenty of worse things that happen on a regular basis, and this one didn't really bother me much at all in the grand scheme of things. Women and children getting raped in the wake of the hurricane, tons of people getting blown up in iraq...kids getting their arms chopped off for no reason in africa...and then some kids slept in cages. Hey, I'm not saying I want to sleep in a cage, but I'd rather sleep in a cage then be dead or have my arm chopped off or something.
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You've become apathetic by reading news stories. Thats sad. They should motivate you into doing something.
 
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