zeldaop
07-22-2008, 05:21 PM
This is going to be a two part rant. :love1:
http://news.aol.com/article/shocking-indifference-to-roma-drowning/94412
Ok, maybe it's just me and my reaction to everything that's gone on in my life over the last few weeks, but this is just wrong. Where did human compassion and sympathy gone? Why do people always want to ignore tragedies simply because said tragedy does not pertain to them? How do you just go on enjoying a day at the beach when two young girls lay dead close to you?
Or even worse, why do people feel the need to gawk at tragedy? Three weeks ago my husband passed away in his sleep. It was a Sunday afternoon and the people across the street were actually hanging out the window watching as the mortuary people took away my husband's body. They had been outside, then went in and actually hung out the window. And just last week I had to call the ambulance for my mother and a family came from down the street to watch her being taken away. As the ambulance pulled away, I watched them return to their home at the other end of the block.
Why do other people's misfortunes fascinate people? Has society really lost all sense of decency, morality, compassion and caring? Are people so jaded that they actually derive amusement from other's tragedy? What does that say about the state of the human race? It boogles the mind.
http://news.aol.com/article/shocking-indifference-to-roma-drowning/94412
Ok, maybe it's just me and my reaction to everything that's gone on in my life over the last few weeks, but this is just wrong. Where did human compassion and sympathy gone? Why do people always want to ignore tragedies simply because said tragedy does not pertain to them? How do you just go on enjoying a day at the beach when two young girls lay dead close to you?
Or even worse, why do people feel the need to gawk at tragedy? Three weeks ago my husband passed away in his sleep. It was a Sunday afternoon and the people across the street were actually hanging out the window watching as the mortuary people took away my husband's body. They had been outside, then went in and actually hung out the window. And just last week I had to call the ambulance for my mother and a family came from down the street to watch her being taken away. As the ambulance pulled away, I watched them return to their home at the other end of the block.
Why do other people's misfortunes fascinate people? Has society really lost all sense of decency, morality, compassion and caring? Are people so jaded that they actually derive amusement from other's tragedy? What does that say about the state of the human race? It boogles the mind.