@izzythepush,
Quote:1000+ dead Palestinians, most of whom are civilians, and you don't give a ****. What's there to question?
Hi Izzy, I find this sort of thing is relevant to the persons association with it. For example:
- do you, or anyone here, give a **** about the genocide occurring in West Papua (it has been an occupied 'country' for 40 odd years)
- did you care about the genocide that occurred in East Timor?
- What about the attrocities occuring in Sudan?
- What about the Russian inspired civil war in the Ukraine? (or, it's invasion of Georgia... and which other country?)
When there's separation from the issue - then people's degree of 'caring' wanes, often allowing them to look at all sides of an issue.
I would also compare it to all the people in your city - who you don't know...do you really care about them? Wouldn't the honest answer be 'not until you meet them personally, or they have a direct or indirect impact on you (indirect examples:through a news story, or just on TV)'. To most people, they are just strangers....and the further you remove someone from a person , the less 'personal' it becomes.
As another example, if we now remove people from an event in time - what do you feel about the conquest of the Mongols?
The point is - you can be the most helpful, kindest, caring person to people you know...and not feel the same about:
- a historical act
- an act on the other side of the world
- something that happened to a complete stranger
...the degree of removal affects everyone - just to different degrees. It doesn't make them any less human.