Empathy Stops Working (branched from another thread)

[lollynoob]

lollynoob, FOAD.

look at you
you are getting mad at the internet
you are being a dumb babby

I'm not being a "dumb babby", I'm telling you that being ... how do I put this nicely... I can't... an ******* about 1,836 innocent people dying is just awful.

Just freaking awful...

Mods, if you feel you need to, remove this post. I won't be offended.

You can't care about everything. Get over it. People die, it's ironic sometimes, and sometimes you laugh at it; no big deal, you'd never have met any of those 1,800 people in the first place. For some reason though, now that they're dead, it's like they're your family; this is wrong, and that's the point I've been getting at all along. It's not awful to accept that at a certain scale, empathy just stops working.

[Troy Martin]

Holy crap that was profound. In a good way.

I'm going to just plop down here that I'm going to end this little debate by saying that I agree, yes, empathy stops working after a while, and yes, I've never met any of those eighteen hundred people, but I find it sad about their deaths and I feel for their families.

Sorry for all the... inconveniences.

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Troy