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Post by Mo-DAWG on May 13, 2010 1:21:07 GMT
compassion, empathy is expected from members of society towards murder victims as well as towards mvs .. but then do we really feel compassion/empathy for a total stranger or is it that we pretend we do cuz its being expected from us? and then: is it possible to feel REAL heartfelt compassion/empathy for a total stranger and his/her family or do we have to pretend we do? then are these feelings we feel (if any) really compassion/empathy or the pain we feel when we think "it could be one of my family?"
i often thought about this subject cuz im not buying this "REAL compassion/empathy for a total stranger and his/her family" in general... if this compassion/empathy was really real then lookig at our world and what happens in it we wouldt have/couldnt have anything else to do than spend or days with compassion/empathy.. so what is it really about? is preteding/expressing compassion and empathy just a friendly gesture towards those who suffer from the loss of a murdered beloved one? a gesture of saying/pretending "look we are right here with you/we feel for you"? a gesture cuz such a gesture is generally being expected in our society? i personally do believe that 8 out of 10 people who didnt know the victim or his/her family actually think "whatever.. i dont even know these people..but hell people like me better when i pretend to have empathy/compassion" ..
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Post by sadie1263 on May 13, 2010 4:24:22 GMT
I think sometimes........it can be all in the packaging........it's easy to feel sorry for certain figures.......the pregnant missing pretty female...............then for the missing dirty crazy looking homeless person that isn't at the corner anymore.............doesn't matter if they are both found murdered in the same horrible fashion......which one is going to be on every news channel?
I like to think I feel empathy.........but sometimes we are bombarded with......give to this charity and the pictures associated it.....and this charity....and on and on......that sometimes I think you become a little numb to it.......same with the murders......every night on the news.....there is another story......it's something that happens to someone else......in someone else's town.......sometimes until it smacks you in the face and it's closer to you that maybe you have to re-evaluate.
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Post by mouse on May 13, 2010 7:29:04 GMT
empathy or compassion..its compassion i think for charity pictures of babies starving all bones and large eyed ...which turns into empathy for the weary sad faced mothers of the said babies some time difficult to seperate the two emotions
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Post by jade on May 14, 2010 13:33:50 GMT
Its linked to our need to find honour and justice in a world where they are in nature missing.
thus we feel more for the young innocent than we do for the raddled addle-headed misfit
they are the "deserving" of our emotion, the other is not
Pure humanity would feel their pain all the same and in equal measure however, so we colour the purity of our humanity with the corruption of a morality we ourselves have developed
It confines the pain we feel and allows us to feel what we feel more keenly, a survival mechanism
Otherwise we would do no more than wail at life's outrages
And those who feel less than we do would sneak in and invade Poland
or summat
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