road beggars
I believe those who beg for money on the side of the road are making society less empathetic because they try not to give them money. This is a vast over-generalization, but I believe it gets the point across.
It's no surprise that the human race is becoming more and more apathetic as time goes on, given the way the world is now. Media is showing more and more vulgarity, gore, and violence than before, and more people are getting exposed to this at younger and younger ages. This exposure is desensitizing us collectively and we respond less and less to this stimuli (an argument shown to me by Bobby). However, I believe that the desensitization is only to a limited extent, with the border being the killings we see in media (which we shrug off as it is not affecting us in any immediate way) to 'ignoring' the beggar on the side of the road. This is a generalized barrier, with a rough definition that varies from person to person.
In support of this barrier's existence, I'd like to bring forth the knowledge of PTSD. This is a disorder which affects thousands of soldiers each year and is constant through generations, not closed off to one specific group. If the desensitization held true without a border, then experiencing the killings and violence in person would have less of an effect, but this is obviously not the case.
With these two ideas I believe that we are being desensitized, but only in some aspects, largely in areas where our long-term lives are not largely impacted. This desensitization does have major negative consequences though. Without desensitization, there would be more good in the world. Examples being: A vast majority of nazi members became desensitized, many of them were honest people who had to decide to obey or be killed. While not being desensitized may not have prevented the holocaust, it could help in more modern times, such as the riots going on around the world (Hong Kong, Chile, even Iraq). Our nation has been desensitized to the point where a few things happen: people are kept in the dark about these events happening; riots not covered on news. People learn about the events but dont feel effected enough to strike action. And last people learn about the events but just straight up dont care.
Its like this world is going absolutely insane and its just barreling down further and faster.
It's no surprise that the human race is becoming more and more apathetic as time goes on, given the way the world is now. Media is showing more and more vulgarity, gore, and violence than before, and more people are getting exposed to this at younger and younger ages. This exposure is desensitizing us collectively and we respond less and less to this stimuli (an argument shown to me by Bobby). However, I believe that the desensitization is only to a limited extent, with the border being the killings we see in media (which we shrug off as it is not affecting us in any immediate way) to 'ignoring' the beggar on the side of the road. This is a generalized barrier, with a rough definition that varies from person to person.
In support of this barrier's existence, I'd like to bring forth the knowledge of PTSD. This is a disorder which affects thousands of soldiers each year and is constant through generations, not closed off to one specific group. If the desensitization held true without a border, then experiencing the killings and violence in person would have less of an effect, but this is obviously not the case.
With these two ideas I believe that we are being desensitized, but only in some aspects, largely in areas where our long-term lives are not largely impacted. This desensitization does have major negative consequences though. Without desensitization, there would be more good in the world. Examples being: A vast majority of nazi members became desensitized, many of them were honest people who had to decide to obey or be killed. While not being desensitized may not have prevented the holocaust, it could help in more modern times, such as the riots going on around the world (Hong Kong, Chile, even Iraq). Our nation has been desensitized to the point where a few things happen: people are kept in the dark about these events happening; riots not covered on news. People learn about the events but dont feel effected enough to strike action. And last people learn about the events but just straight up dont care.
Its like this world is going absolutely insane and its just barreling down further and faster.
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