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Of course we feel more affected by something we have proximity and experience with. But we also have the capability for unpacking our thoughts
I think you are right to wish we would all have more empathy for those living through real disasters, e.g Mosul. I think it's wrong to suggest we shouldn't express grief / shock at disasters on our doorstep, as if that somehow makes us callous.
If someone dies in my street, of course I'll care more about that than a hundred people dying the other side of the world. It doesn't mean I have a blinkered world view.
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My issue isn’t with people expressing shock, my issue is with the sheer amount of shock and grief, in both the media and social media, which I think is a great example of western hypocrisy. We’re talking about the roof of one building.
And I disagree. You state that comparison as if it’s an obvious fact. I think we’re capable of far more complex empathy, than simply feeling the most emotion because something is close by.
Fyoosh
Isn’t that exactly the problem?
Of course we feel more affected by something we have proximity and experience with. But we also have the capability for unpacking our thoughts and seeing a wider picture and just possibly, before uploading another screenshot with a broken heart emoji, even recognising that it’s kind of weird we feel worse about the part destruction of one building, than the bombing and utter destruction of an entire city.
Over 50 go fund me campaigns started by regular people and the total official fund raising is at over £600 million euro’s. For a building that caught fire less than 24 hours ago. Lol.