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Humans, by nature, are selfish........it is a survival mechanism.
Humans, by nature, care most for those closest to them, their family, friends, countrymen, coreligionists. But recently it has become the fashion to make a show of caring more for the other. So you have people who don't give a crap about their own relatives but profess deep affection and concern for Syrians, arctic wolves and trees growing in the Amazon.
"Stockholm syndrome" is when hostages sympathize with their captors as a means of coping with a stressful situation. But in this thread we have people who aren't even directly affected by the Manchester attack justifying it and directing their anger toward their own society. I suspect the motive is simply a desire to feel morally superior to others who exhibit a more normal, healthy response, but who knows... do we even have a proper term for this type of mental illness?
I saw no one justify it. There must be a name for the syndrome you just exhibited.
Just asking. I remember a story of an Iraqi family
one night in Baghdad. Father, Mother, 3 kids. 12 and 8 yr old girls and a 3 year old boy. They came up on a US checkpoint/roadblock and I guess approached too closely too fast. There was confusion and when it was all over the 12 year old had lost her mother, father and little sister in a hail of bullets. She protected her little brother with her own body and neither were hurt badly.
There's been children lost their lives all over the ME in this War On Terror. You hear little if anything unless its used for propaganda and its done by those people.
The hypocrisy is sickening. I guess the average westerner can live with it though as long as it's the children of those people.
Well, depending on who "we" and who the "others" are. We is too vague to even address, so I won't. "Others" however can be simplified into a few categories. There are the people near enough that we can see them; most people will feel some sympathy for those suffering if they actually see it happen. Then there are "Americans." This one, we tend to feel some sympathy for, but often, it's limited. Then there are those who look like us. Pretty similar to the last, though even less real sympathy. Then there are those who don't look like us. This is where the "we" comes in. Ultimately, some "we's" will feel the same about dissimilar looking people as they do about any non-Americans, some will feel more bad for them, and some frankly just won't give a damn.
The latter is usually someone who is racist in some capacity. Just being honest. The numerous "Muslims are also bad" response is sort of the example to give. That's irrelevant. Many innocent people die in this so called war on terror; it doesn't really matter if non-innocent people exist.
From what I understand, that is the main reason all of this began (first WTC attack?) : because we were killing their innocents. Their hatred for us didn't come out of thin air.
Blowback is part of the reason they hate us yes, as well as just the hatred within their religion in general that has existed for thousands of years. It certainly doesn't give them a free pass to hurt our innocents though, or flood our western countries(Europe in particular) with aggressive, low-skill, low IQ people who resent our culture. War in the middle east is a terrible thing, but we average citizens aren't the ones who created that mess, and I don't think we as a whole deserve any of the consequences that we're getting thrown at us. Now if we keep voting for war AND for bringing in countless refugees all of whom become legally protected from criticism then we made the bed of our own destruction.
But I don't know what to do about it. I support refugees coming to this country, I support social programs that help underprivileged children, I would volunteer to pay higher tax rates to make sure all children get a quality education, access to healthcare, etc. I volunteer with several programs aimed at helping children and teens. I don't know what else I can do.
Human Rights! I saw a video of ISIS training little kids to kill. It is sick! I feel for every kid, we cant save the world but we can stop adding to its destruction by invading the wrong country and talk to our southern neighbors. We wont because it is not profitable.
I believe this is the single biggest and most nefarious source of violence in this world and it always has been. I don't ever see this disgusting love of money and power going away.
"Stockholm syndrome" is when hostages sympathize with their captors as a means of coping with a stressful situation. But in this thread we have people who aren't even directly affected by the Manchester attack justifying it and directing their anger toward their own society. I suspect the motive is simply a desire to feel morally superior to others who exhibit a more normal, healthy response, but who knows... do we even have a proper term for this type of mental illness?
Classic.
Feeling empathy and expressing it is now a mental illness.
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